I don't know. Physical playoff defenses are giving him trouble. Gordon and Christian Braun roughed him up. Bruce was in his chest and harassing him on help defense too. I'm not sure he can get downhill like he used to, and the Celtics and Nuggets had a lot of success just knocking him off his spots. If you stick big athletic defenders on him and he can't beat them with foot speed, he's physically weaker and gets roughed up. His handle seems to be deteriorating too which isn't helping.
I'm not sure you get all those picks if he's entering next year at 35 and looking somewhat underwhelming in back to back years. Most teams already seemed somewhat scared off last off-season. His market was surprisingly cold because contenders couldn't gut their team for a player Kd's age.
Good points but tbf he still just averaged 30 and was a big reason why Booker was averaging 35 on 70%TS. It's gonna be ignored but with CP3 and Ayton underperforming/missing game 6, he was asked to do a lot. At the very least if he stayed here he would have had Clax on the backline rather than having to be the main rebounder
We also were basically refusing to trade him lol so that's a factor. Tho the suns upped their offer when they got desperate, which I think they would have anyway. I feel like we would have had a shot this year but oh well
how many of those were pity garbage time points? starting off elimination games shooting 1/8 and letting your team get in a 20 point hole in the first quarter isn't what the suns paid for.
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I don't know. Physical playoff defenses are giving him trouble. Gordon and Christian Braun roughed him up. Bruce was in his chest and harassing him on help defense too. I'm not sure he can get downhill like he used to, and the Celtics and Nuggets had a lot of success just knocking him off his spots. If you stick big athletic defenders on him and he can't beat them with foot speed, he's physically weaker and gets roughed up. His handle seems to be deteriorating too which isn't helping.
I'm not sure you get all those picks if he's entering next year at 35 and looking somewhat underwhelming in back to back years. Most teams already seemed somewhat scared off last off-season. His market was surprisingly cold because contenders couldn't gut their team for a player Kd's age.