Mark Stein weighs in with some thoughts on the playoffs and the various point guard battles that have been a defining characteristic so far in the first round http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playo...?columnist=stein_marc&page=PointGuards-090427 I can't find a single thing to disagree with and normally I think Stein is a half-informed idiot
Yeah, so? KP wasn't gonna overpay. He said he was gonna go to war with these guys.....and has. They've been as successful as can be expected. Now, he has some relatively major summer work to do. All that said, I wonder what this series would be looking like had Martell not gone down? If this were an experience team, it wouldn't have been as significant as it appears to be. As it stands, though.........
Yep. Denver has made a great case for "improve your PG position, and the rest works itself out". I like Blake a lot as a player, and have been behind him all season, but it looks like it is time to find a floor general we can mature with for the next 5 years. Oden is a club, Roy is a sword, and LMA is a rifle. They are all effective weapons, but without a general, they can't wage war.
IMO the only way you can screw up a team by getting a good PG is if you already have one and you create playing time issues. Now there is another option. You just start using a different weapon beside Roy, such as Rudy. In the last game, the team went big for a while, and it worked very well. It would probably take some time to work out the kinks, but I think a Roy/Rudy back court will work. One of the things the article doesn't mention is the team's lack of weapons. The starting unit has 2 guys who basically give you a doughnut every night, and they would probably give you a doughnut even if playing with Magic Johnson. That is a problem in itself when facing a team that doesn't have to worry about guarding everybody.
Valid points I think. However, he really pulls a boner when he says We lost the last game by ONE point. If we score 2 more points in the game, the conclusions are the exact opposite of what he's trying to say. So, I find this type of thing tiresome. Of course, if we win by 1, I'd quickly get tired of all of the "bake it" baloney. Maybe I just can't be pleased by anyone who uses this type of logic? This may be why Hollinger puts much more stock in +/- than in win/loss record.
I think that, next season, we start Oden and maybe Martell. A good PG will be able to make those two guys produce. And Batum can grow to the point of producing as well. Since we can't really trade for Magic between Games 4 and 5, talking about Przy and Batum as two doughnuts is ind of moot. We have better weapons; they're just not ready yet.
