LOOOOOOOLLL
Keon Ellis would be playing 25 MPG right now for the Champion OKC Thunder, especially because he's a better shooter than most of their defensive lynchpin types. But sure man, he's not valuable for one of the worst defenses in basketball.
Although this is Matt George, so we can probably take his "sources" with a grain of salt. His comment about the previous FO wanting other players to play instead of Keon, really doesn't line up, who's an analytics darling for a FO that really valued in when Monte was in charge.
George really liked Mike Brown. He felt the fans scape goated him.
That said, it seems like Perry has been using George/KC all summer as mouth pieces to the fans.
We entered the summer with guys like Carmichael Dave saying Demar is going to be gone, then Perry came in and suddenly George and KC were saying "I think Perry really liked Demar and what he brings to the team as a vet leader"
Then it pivoted to they think Monk is expendable - and we heard he was going to Detroit, and then maybe GS, but didn't really have a market.
Then it was "Carter isn't Perrys guy, hes expendable" well clearly that was right because they added Russ/Nique/Schroder to an already crowded back court that has led to Carter getting DNP.
Then those guys had a lot about Kuminga and basically knowing exactly how far Perry would go in terms of a trade. Wont give an unprotected 1st etc..
Now it's the Keon stuff and hes playing 13mpg.
So I wouldn't take it with a grain of salt really, we are seeing first hand these guys just don't value defense. They used Nique just like they have Keegan for years, be our best defender then go stand in the corner. They view the recipe as 3 iso guards (Schroder, Russ, Lavine, Monk, Demar) + 1 defender (Nique/Keegan) + Sabonis.
They are who they are showing us they are. The worst managed org in sports with the Raiders.
