Blazers need to find a backup PG that can give them quality minutes..

Adam Morrison was awesome in the SL.

 

No, it's really not. Scorers are scorers and passers are passers. Playmaking is not something that can be taught. A player either has a natural ability to find the open man and run an offense, or they don't. It's like quarterback. How many QBs are out there who can call their own number and run the ball, but are lacking the natural ability to do checkdowns and make the correct pass? The road to the NBA is paved with combo guards who couldn't make the transition to point guard, and didn't have the height to play shooting guard.

 

so was DL

 

See, I completely disagree with this sentiment when it comes to point guards. That position more than any other is about innate ability and temperament than simple repetition. The league's history is littered with the desiccated remains of "combo" guards who couldn't make the transition from small college shooting guard, to NBA point guard. If Nolan is going to succeed, he'll have to do it as a 2 guard or not at all and I think history is on my side.

 

Nolan Smith makes Price look good . . .

 

Yawn, agree to disagree. Look at the PGs across the league - there are very few pure PGs. Basically, all of them - Westbrook, for example, struggled out of the gate.

If you guys were talking about Austin Rivers who basically never played PG before, I'd agree.
I don't see Nolan like I see Rivers.

 

I think Steve Blake would be a very good backup PG who is a veteran and would except the role on this team.

 

If that's the case, We're fucked!