GobertReport wrote:I am sick of people thinking Donnie is an inefficient scrub!!! Kawhi had Timmy, Parker, and Manu while Kobe had Shaq, Donnie hasn’t had another go to scorer to take the pressure off himself to be more efficient, add a Harris or DLo this year and that changes, stop being so ridiculous people.
This statement is really poetic, but unfortunately is not in correlation with observable facts. For example Kobe still was reasonably efficient when he DIDN'T have Shaq. It was not enough even to get to PO (before they got Gasol team was a trash), but nevertheless he was by far most efficient player on the team. Take Pierce for other clear example. One can find a good number of reasonably efficient prime scorers in pretty weak teams. And I don't even talk about monsters like LeBron. So I'm not going to buy that poetic narrative about "pressure".
As for DM, I thought he showed some improvement in the end of regulation, but all that dissolved in PO. And worst thing he looks quite happy with that development.
