Sean “The Real Irish Kobe” Kilpatrick has not been playing well in the calendar year 2017, to the point where I assume that his new year’s resolution was to not care about basketball anymore and to focus on appearing in community theater productions or something. He shot 32% from three in January and then 34% in February, and his overall field goal percentages were not much better. Let’s be honest: he was slumping.
The Kilswitch is doing considerably better in March, but March has barely started so let’s not get carried away with thinking that he’s back to be good for real. The dreaded slump could sneak up on him again and overtake him without any of us realizing it until he resumes bricking shots. We would all love for him to go back to being a nightly sixteen-to-twenty point threat, but I would be happy if he just could be decent to finish out the year and maybe help the Nets to one or two more wins.