I think his legs will be fresher with an improved Oden and Aldridge, as more and more offense will fall on them, and there will be easy kick outs, and then he will take over in the 4th. As well as improvement from Bayless and Batum. Already this year he has focused more on taking over in the 4th. That will only get better as we get more ofensive production down low.
If he's still doing a ton of initiating on offense and getting the big men the ball (which hasn't been his strongest suit anyway) how is that going to improve the freshness of his legs? We don't need an all-star, but a solid B+ point guard with some experience would really do this team some good. I like Bayless but I'm increasingly convinced that this just might be the wrong circumstance for him to find success as a player in the league.
How much is it tiring someone out to throw a pass down low? I didn't mean dumping off to them on a drive, I mean getting it into them from the wing. Which is also very easily done by Batum or PG. I agree about not needing an All Star PG. My argument is about Paul, and wondering aloud how his game would affect Brandon's game.
Honestly? He'd probably see his FG% go up,but his assists and points dip slightly and probably end up with a line that looked something like this: FG% 50%, 22pts/3 assists /4 rebounds. The reason his percentages would go up are because Paul gets the ball to guys in the spots they love to shoot from most and has ways of doing it so they are usually pretty much open. Paul conversely would probably average more assists and less points and probably put up a line that looked like 18/13/4 -- they'd each cut into each other's box score, but the team would benefit and no team would ever be double them. But, alas this is just a big pipe dream.
Part of it, to me, is the thought that adding a playmaking, ball dominant PG takes away what makes Brandon so special. Yes, he could still sometimes take over in the 4th, but if he is doing that, you are reducing Paul to a spot up shooter when Roy is doing that. Allowing Paul to dominate the ball, to me is taking away from Roy, and turning him, basically, into a glorified Eddie Jones.
I can understand what you are saying and it's a valid point of view and I agree that there would be a certain level of risk associated with adding a dominant ball handling point guard to our backcourt, but there are examples around the league where a playmaking shooting guard has coexisted with an elite point guard just fine (Manu and Tony, Devin Harris and Vince, Andre Miller and Andre Iguodala, Jordan and Pippen, etc.).
Manu comes in off the bench, and is allowed to do a lot of his scoring opposite Parker. Plus, Parker isn't a playmaking PG, as much as he is a scoring PG. Same with Harris. I wouldn't put Pippen in that category either.
