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Eric Apricot's avatar

I’ve been trying to avoid talking about JK unless directly asked, but I can’t resist this. Monte Poole’s latest calls JK “a terrific scoring soloist” and many other think pieces about JK take for granted a similar idea that JK is a great iso player but Kerr hates iso.

I can’t predict if JK will *become* a terrific isolation player, but if he was terrific now, then there would be no problem and he’d be paid and get minutes.

Let’s look at his stats from his most shining moment, these playoffs — when he was allowed to play. The NBA tracks how many points per possession you score on isolation.

JK is #34 out of 44 qualifying players. On GSW alone he is behind

#5 Steph

#17 Buddy(?!)

#28 Jimmy

One statistic is not a proof. But I have not seen evidence (statistical or close film watch) that JK is terrific at isolation yet. At this point, the burden is on the claimer to prove that JK is a plus isolation player.

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/isolation?dir=D&sort=PPP

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fzwinter's avatar

Play of the year - the Podz behind the back pass flying out of bounds to JK for the dunk

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