Blazers need to find a backup PG that can give them quality minutes..

I don't want to see Lillard gas out towards the end of the season because he is playing to many minutes due to the fact that our backup Point guards suck. Who knows maybe it could be price but Smith just looks awful.

 

Sergio.

 

Nolan Smith is just awful. Let's just call up Coby Karl.

 

Side story: Jordan Farmar is dominating the Euroleague.

 

^^^

 

Shawn Livingston was waived by the Rockets. I'd look at him.

 

Just curious, but why do some of think Nolan played so bad last night? Also, Ronnie Price will be a decent back up

 

Can we just cut Babbitt now?

 

He just has no flow at all. He makes shaky decisions, and he has no offensive game at all.

 

Price looked pretty good in preseason. Better defender than Lillard and seemed like he ran the offense well enough.

 

It was limited but I also liked what I saw in Price.

 

Any kind of offensive rhythm and flow just seemed to stall when he was initiating the offense ... I don't know, I don't think he was as horrific as some might think, but I don't necessarily think he's an NBA caliber point. He sort of looks like a replacement level 2 guard to me.

 

Im not sure if Nolan has gotten worse or its just really starting to get to me.

 

I just don't thin Nolan is a point guard. He played 10x better as the shooting guard in SL. That's not to say he's a great scorer, but I think once you remove the thought that he needs to run the plays and find the open guy, he seems to play better. This sucks because we drafted him to play point guard.... but if he can be serviceable this season as a shooting guard, I think that's where we need to put him.

 

Last I heard the Lakers are shopping Steve Blake to make room for Derek Fisher.

 

"Shopping." Like when I put all of my biodegradable detritus and refuse in my green bin and "shop" it to the curb on Thursday night.

 

I just don't think Nolan is comfortable running the team, yet. It'll take some time, but I think that given the chance he'll do fine some time this year.

 

Hmmmmm ... nah. He pretty much looks like the same player that he was at Duke. There's not much upside left given his age and athletic profile, he's probably pretty close to the player he's ever going to be.

 

Simply, no. He showed he has a lot of talent in summer league when he played 2G. He does well at the 2G because he doesn't have to think as much. By sheer repetition, he'll get to that place when playing PG.

It's a confidence thing, not a talent thing.