Zaza Pachulia is Arnold Schwarzenegger to Luke Kennard’s John Conner. His Goose to Kennard’s Maverick. Kevin Costner to Kennard’s Whitney Houston.
Zaza has made it his mission in life to get Luke Kennard open looks. In a sophomore season that has been mostly disappointing for Kennard, with criticisms about his tentativeness in pulling the trigger on his shot, Zaza has been a solution.
There’d been signs of some Zaza-Kennard chemistry for a while now, but it was on full display a week ago against the Kings.
With Andre Drummond out, Dwane Casey staggered the rotations so that for the majority of the game either Blake Griffin or the Zaza/Kennard duo were on the court at the same time.