I have said this before, and believe it more than ever now. Nolan is not a PG. Nolan is a capable passer, and would do well as a back up 2.
I don't think he would be even a decent backup 2, first because of his lousy shot and secondly because of his size, IMO he is not an NBA caliber player. His jump shot looks like an NBA version of a tennis "topspin forehand"
How does he still have a job with this organization? I totally bashed that trade at the time. We gave up Andre Miller for Raymond Fatty Felton, and passed on Kenneth Faried to take Nolan Smith. Both our starting five and our bench got worse. It hurt the team both short term and long term, and made a division rival better in the process. Oh well, on the bright side, it guaranteed us at least two years of lottery picks - even though that wasn't the goal at the time. BNM
I was okay with Nolan trying out as a combo guard, but they've been playing him as a point guard again. He's not a point guard. Period. The guy doesn't make good decisions and he's not a play maker. That was the whole point of signing Ronnie Price. If Price is going to be out for a while, we need to find another point guard.
Barton is beast, I would let him do his thing at the point over Nolan. He did some things that really impressed me. Dude can hoop. I caught the second half of last nights game, Nolan just couldn't buy a bucket. Plus his decisions are suspect.
At 6'5" he's probably built more like a SG, but he's very effective as a guy who facilitates the offense. Other than Lillard, he's easily a better playmaker than anybody else on our roster (Price or Smith), regardless of position.
Our bench got outscored 47-29 last night. If that's considered "great", it's going to be a long season. BNM
He's almost like a lesser version of Juan Dixon, small, not very athletic, insufficient PG skills. Smith better not be on the team next year. He should be a practice squad player, and let Coby Karl be the 3rd stringer.
Nolan Smith couldn't sniff Dixon's jock strap, and that's saying something. Dixon was a far superior scorer.
Well, if this draft pans out, as it looks like it may, I think we can say that Chad has redeemed himself from that epic fail last year. It's just kinda sad when the fans are all rooting for a guy to be taken, and the management who is paid to do what they do makes the wrong move.
Sinobas, that was your 2000th post. Juan Dixon was our top clutch scorer before we got Roy. But he was what, 160 pounds, trying to play SG. He had the courage to take it inside, but not the weight to withstand the blowback from monstrous defenders in there. I liked him. He won a few games for us.
