True. Because they are both better shooters. If the offense breaks down Roy and Blake can just pull up and shoot it. Sergio is not as good of a shooter, so he has to rely on the other guys to get open. Roy especially is a huge threat to go one on one at any time. Sergio is not.
Sergio is frustrating. He sometimes shows Calderon-like ability for a game or two and I start to think he'd be the perfect point guard to run the team and he's turning the corner...and then he has three games where he's awful. I hope it finally snaps together and he turns into a slick, consistently good point guard...but I fear that he may make a career of "Has Sergio turned it around? ... God damn you, Sergio!!11!"
You know on a lot of nights, if you get your bench to come out even, you take it and run. With Sergio, I feel that way most nights. As long as the Blazers are scoring while he is in, they will be ok. You know other teams are going to score while he is on the floor. The last couple of games, he has done a good job at getting production. It's kind of the opposite of when Danny Young played for the Blazers. That dude didn't light it up. But why he was in, he didn't fuck up, and he played very good defense so other teams would not blow you out while your bench was in. Sergio is the exact opposite. As long as he does what he needs to do, which is get the team's offense going, you are ok. If not, your screwed.
There is no such thing as over-dribbling if you are a PG. Once a PG stops dribbling, he's dead in the water. A PG will dribble in place to try and draw a double team or set up a P&R, or dribble around the perimeter to make the defense break up and follow him. If your PG isn't dribbling, he probably doesn't know WTF he's doing.
I had a feeling Deron Williams has no clue what he is doing with all that scoring and CP3 is exposed by all that setting people up... The trouble you have Maris is that you talk in philosophy, but we are listening in gibberish, my friend...
You've forgotten that point guards are also allowed to pass the ball. So, their only option isn't to dribble. A point guard who isn't dribbling could be passing OR not even touching the ball because he already passed it to someone.
I loved Sergio last night because he gave us what we needed when Utah was making their run. Utah was about to wipe away our 19 point lead and then Sergio came out and knocked down shots and got big steals so I was thrilled. I'm a Bayless man but Sergio was great. I can't imagine you liked Sergio's +/- though, did you MARIS?
Goes without saying. Sergio obviously passes more per minute and more successfully than just about any PG alive, but the topic was dribbling, with an implication that it was a bad thing, which it most definitely is not. It's what a PG does right up to the second he passes. And that includes Williams and Paul. I think it was Dr. Jack Ramsey who said "once you pick up your dribble, you're done."
He still tries to do too much. There are many times when he drives into the paint where he can just drop it off the to big man but instead takes his own fading jumper or layup which usually bricks. He also seems to deny Brandon when they are playing at the same time. I hate the fact that he's a ball dominating guard, and I hate the fact that he's not good enough to dominate the ball. Last night, regardless of his stat line, he did not play as well as people think. Oh please, like that's an accomplishment.
I think he's been asked to take those shots. All premiere PG's in this league have the ability to score. Paul, Deron, Nash, even Kidd to an extent could score at will. I remember earlier in the season and even last season, all Sergio did was pass. It made our offense predictable when he was in because they knew they didn't have to guard him closely. By taking more shots, Sergio keeps opposing defenses honest. Just like LeBron has to chuck up a few threes sometimes. It's not his specialty, but he has to in order to make defenses pay for leaving him open or playing him loosely.
Well he can't make those shots. It's quite obvious. You can't keep a defense honest if you're missing layups and close jumpers, which is what Sergio does.
Of course a PG can over dribble. He can dribble away the clock and be forced to take a bad shot or pass to someone with no time on the clock so they have to take a bad shot. I wouldn't say Sergio is quite that bad, but at times it would seem he'd be better serve passing and reseting to get the ball back and get a better pass/shot or allow another player to get the assist. No one said he should stop dribbling and just stand there with the ball.
