There's no reason to believe Bayless can't work his way up to the scrub level too, with a few years on the bench watching.
Bayless is our PG of the future. He will be a perfect fit next to Roy. He can shot, play great defense, drive to hoop and is fearless. The of the best things is he always hustles.
Bayless tonight was THE reason the Blazers closed the deficit against Detroit. Of course, Nate then decided to take Bayless out and all the intensity that was spearheaded by Bayless was out the window. His D is pretty amazing for a rook. He has a chance of being the best defensive PG in the league if he is ever able to be considered a PG.
I am not saying he is as good as Rondo or a few others, I am saying that he has a legit shot at becoming the best, or one of the best defensive players. You don't see too many rooks able to completely discombobulate great players like AI and Stuckey. Bayless still has a long way to go on the offensive end, especially as a distributor, but if nothing else, Bayless will make a name for himself in the NBA as one of the best defenders.
Maybe not the best, but damn does he get up in a guy's grill. It was no accident that Stuckey had 6 turnovers tonight; even when Bayless wasn't stealing the ball he was right on his hip hassling him and forcing him into a help defender (like the jump ball between Stuckey and Joel). Bayless was THE reason we even got back into it with the Pistons tonight, good for him.
nope, still don't think he's a PG and can only work well in a backcourt with Roy or another bigger guard that can handle the ball. luckily we may have that with rudy.
you could really tell by Bayless' emotions that it was like getting the monkey off his back by finally being able to contribute
It's games like this that make me excited about the future. So far this year, we have seen sporadic, but excellent play, from all Oden, Rudy, Batum and Bayless. Most nights, only one of them is doing anything too useful, but it's these flashes that give me hope. We have Roy and LMA who are proven and are part of the future core, and now it's just a search for which of the others are going to solidify the core of the Blazers in the future.
I think it was also quite apparent that he has the skills to distribute the ball as well. He is coming along just fine. His talent is obvious.
The same type of criticisms were made of Rodney Stuckey about a year ago too if I remember right. Wonder how that turned out.
so what you're saying is that you don't think he can be successful unless we have two other guards like Roy or Rudy? And this is a problem how?
He said "so far this year," not tonight we saw He's talking about this year, he has seen sporadic amazing play from all of our rookies. As in they have had their ups and downs, good and bad games, but you can see the talent, and it's exciting. Hopefully they fulfill their potential and become more of the good than bad
If you saw the game with Bayless taking over stretches of the game than you saw the same game. God was simply implying that tonight yet one more young player stepped up and gave him hope for another core player to be added to the mix. That was fun to see,
It seemed like Bayless making that 17-foot jumper in the first half really just relaxed him and got him going. That's the first jumper I think I've ever seen him make, and then we got to see the energy he can bring to this team. The guy was actually willing to fast break, and take it to the hole against the big guys. I am pleading for this team to run more than it should, and tonight they showed they can a bit. It got the team going and it got the crowd going. I loved it.
