Lengthy David Thorpe Q&A on Kevin Martin

by Tom Ziller on Feb 7, 2008 12:52 PM PST in Links

Via TrueHoop, Sam Amick's long Q&A with Kevin Martin's trainer David Thorpe.

Question: Do you see him as an All-Star caliber player or a possible MVP type player? Is he Michael Jordan or Scottie Pippen?

Answer: In terms of MVP, I think he's much more likely to get MVP of a championship series than he is MVP of the league. The way the league is, the guys who win the MVPs are going to be high usage guys. And I think Kevin is someone who's never going to be a real high usage guy because he's too efficient. He's just going to make the right play, get other people involved and play off of people - passing and cutting, which he's obviously one of the best in the league at that.
So I don't think I would ever see him as an MVP unless he played for a team that really had no other offensive weapons and he scored 30 a night, which I think he could do.

As for Jordan or Pippen, he's not going to be the greatest player of all time, but Pippen was Top 50 of the century. I don't know if Kevin will ever get there, but it's certainly a worthwhile goal.

Tons of good stuff in there.

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Very nice read

I can't wait to see what Kevin can develop into. And is there any way we can get Thorpe on staff as an assistant or something? He's probably not tall enough for Reggie, but I'd love to see what he could do with Hawes and the other youngins.

by Kfan in Korea on Feb 7, 2008 2:31 PM PST reply actions

I think...

I think he'd cost too much.

by Tom Ziller on Feb 7, 2008 2:43 PM PST up reply actions

Maybe we can trade K9 for him

Hopefully Kmart's recommendation will get some of our guys to work with him over the summer.

by Kfan in Korea on Feb 7, 2008 2:53 PM PST up reply actions

Tremendous interview by Amick

Thanks for passing it along. I find it funny Amick uses his blog to say he could get an entire interview in. I wonder if that has anything to do with TZ's interview of Bill Bradley in the previous spring. Just kidding TZ.

Excellent article, and I found it interesting about how Martin doesn't shoot enough to be MVP because of his lower usage rates.

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by pookeyguru on Feb 7, 2008 2:39 PM PST reply actions