I tend to see it this way too ... but I'm willing to give Sergio a chance to prove himself in the extended minutes he's likely to get over the next 6 to 13 games that Blake is expected to be out.
EXACTLY, listen i like sergio, that's no big shocker, but i also understand his flaws. i find it amusing that alot of guys on here are using excuses for bayless that could just as easily go for sergio as well. i root for both of them because they are blazers. as for blake being gone, i think the bu PG needs to be a change of pace guy and blake is not that. yes he's shot great this year and he bridged the gap but he's not a long term solution. for that matter i still don't think JB or Sergio are guarenteed to be the solution, maybe it's Kop?
Anyone who thinks I root for Sergio just to irritate people is obviously a newbie on the boards. I've expressed my rabid fanism for Sergio consitently since the day we got him. He's the Pure PG who will lead this team for many years of success. While they fight for PT now, Bayless is obviously in competition (in the long run) with Blake, not Sergio. Or maybe we end up playing 5 guards. The Sergio/Rudy combo could start against any guard duo in the league and do fine, as could the Roy/Bayless duo, and that's how I think KP looks at them. It's about who plays well with whom, and not about who's the main guy, or who starts. Blake has always been the bandaid, the intermittent piece to steady the team through transition, and the guy deserves a medal for how he's performed.
BTW, I'm rooting for every Blazer to succeed in helping this team, and am sorry if anyone is taking my view as some sort of personal attack on them. Not meant to be. It's just so bewildering how anyone can ever disagree with anything I say. And KingSpeed, SERGIO IS THE BEST PG IN THE WORLD!
I also think Roy is the PG in the Roy/Bayless duo, as he gets assists and Bayless is way better than Roy at moving without the ball.
The problem with your viewpoint on Sergio is that it presumes that the Blazers will become the uptempo type of team that makes the best use of his style of play. You've made it abundantly clear that that's the style of play that you like. I just don't see it happening here under McMillan and with a team that's building around Oden. I see the Blazers being primarily a half court team with occasional fastbreaks. Because of that, I think Sergio becomes the guy on the outside looking in.
Oden excelled on an uptempo team in college and pretty much every player on our team plays better in the open court with the exception of Roy. KP has repeated a million times that's the style of play he envisions for this team's future. Nate seems to be embracing it finally to some degree, but if he doesn't it wouldn't surprise me if we changes coaches at some point.
