Well it all makes sense if you take a step back and look big picture. Kobi was part of a three-headed monster that carried this team. He was inconsistent during that period, outstanding one night, the next night he was 2-9. Trier comes back, and Rawle and Kobi both know that means their minutes take a hit, but one of them is taking a huge hit. We now know that Rawle is a special type of cold blooded personality. He can shake the reduction and forget a night where he was off, or when he only got 16 minutes. Cant knock Kobi for not having it, it is a special trait.Hank of sb wrote:I'm guessing Kobi's brain works differently (better) when he gets the minutes he had beforehand. It's too bad it worked out this way for him... and the team.rgdeuce wrote:Kobi just has to go in and do his job for the brief periods hes in. At this point, his PT has been so limited he is not on the same heartbeat with the core guys. Makes it really tough for him to even be places in situations to even get more than a few decent shots off
He'll get drafted.
The draft thing might work out for him.
As for working out for Arizona......less so.
So Kobi, already being an inconsistent player without superman resolve, has a couple off nights in a row. It gets in his head. He panics, thinking, "Trier is back, if I dont get this sorted out right now Im never going to play." With limited minutes, he has less opportunity to shake the rust and in his mind, show CSM that he deserves more floor time. So he forces jumpers, he forces with his dribble, he presses. He is now in a slump he cant shake on top of having no confidence, not enough floor time to get into a rhythm, AND trying to do something amazing to get even close to the minutes he once had. On top of that, Kobi's game was largely predicated on ISO/one on one. When we had no flow to the offense and only two other real weapons, Kobi could be Kobi. Often times we struggled to find a good look or burned most of the shot clock and needed to really on a miracle = ball would swing out to Kobi and he sizes up, jab steps, puts the ball on the floor and goes, or puts the ball on the floor and pulls up/does a stepback. Little time to think, just go. He is most effective when he dominates the ball. Trier comes in, the ultimate ball dominator, and now our offense actually has flow. Rawle's offensive game was more complete and he adapted. Kobi didn't. He has not learned how to be great without holding the ball for extended periods or dribbling the air out of it. Think back to when Lebron first came to Miami. Dwyane Wade was a ball dominator. The king of ball domination, Lebron (Trier) comes in. The heat struggled, and D Wade himself struggled. The Heat and D Wade himself did not right the ship until he adjusted and learned how to play without the ball in his hands all the time.
Add the sum of all the parts and Kobi's struggles are perfectly clear and outside of some sort of divine intervention, we are not going to see the old Kobi the rest of the year. You cant expect a baseball player to break out of a 2 for 38 slump by pinch hitting him once every couple games, nor expect him to come through in a pinch-hitting opportunity in the World Series. You cant expect a wide receiver who is in the middle of a "drop everything" slump to only come in as a decoy on 4 receiver formations and make the big catch on a bomb with time expiring in the NFC title game. The only thing that throws me off in all this is his defense. Miller says he isnt being pouty and a shitty teammate. You trust Miller in general, and seeing Kobi on the bench being a good teammate makes it believable. On the floor though, he is out of it mentally AND the EFFORT is just not there. That is what is weird.
