August being our last month to obsess over the big picture, before September rolls in and we obsess over scrimmage whispers and preseason projections, a mailbag is in order.
1) “...do you think that Fizdale can build the culture, or is he dependent on the leadership qualities of Porzingis, presumably the franchise player for now and moving forward, and his ability to bring the best out of the Latvian to do so?”
— Ashwin Ramath (née The Ghost of Kristaps Past/née Lavor Postell)
There are a lotta answers here, and they’re all “no”: I don’t think David Fizdale can be the main energy driving a culture build, and I don’t think he’s dependent on Porzingis’ leadership qualities because I have yet to see any from KP, and I don’t think Fizdale maximizing Porzingis is a requirement for the team building a new culture.