Exclusive OFFICIAL Around the NBA thread: October 2019

Who said you can't have 2 point guards on the floor at the same time. If they share the duties and responsibility then they are both running the point, but if one pretty much dominates the responsibility then he would be the lead point guard such as Lillard, Doncic and Simmons. As for a point forward, I look at that as someone who you can run the offense through on occasion but not necessarily the main facilitator and that would be guys like Giannis, Griffen, Jokic etc. Sure guys can play multiple positions, but you define their position by their main responsibility. McCollum runs the point at times, but his main role is shooting guard.

 

Yeah, I concur, like I said I think we agree for the most part my only point was I think more and more teams are looking for guys who can cover as many positions as possible. Its definitely not the old, PG,SG,SF,PF,C of years past.

 

If Point Guard is defined as the guy who has the most responsibility initiating the offense, then you can't have two because two players can't have the "most responsibility". If you define it more loosly than that then you can have two "point guards". I also feel like the unicorns of the league (Simmons, LeBron, Doncic, etc.) are well known, so you could describe those guys as forwards and most NBA fans would still understand that those guys are going to have the ball in their hands and initiate offense, because they're stars. They're still guarding wings/forwards, and they still have the size of a wing/forward, so I feel like it's easier to define them as ball dominant wings or forwards instead of arguing whether or not they initiate enough offense to be considered a "PG", which is an argument I see a lot of NBA fans having. That's just how I look at it though.

 

And not a bad night by LeBron. The old man got ANOTHER triple double.
Just between you and THE HCP, you guys think the Lakers are going to be good this season?

 

I think the NBA is gonna make sure the Lakers and Clippers combine for 110+ wins... If nothing else just give AD 27 ft's...

 

Montrez Harrell will beast out against the Blazers.

 

He doesn't do anything in that clip, but was 9 for 11, 2 steals and a block (six in the last three games.)

 

Your guy Russ Westbrook was like a -47 in his loss against Meyers....Meyers was like a +29....

 

You had me until Odom. He was at most the secondary ball handler any time he was on a good team.

 

I disagree with the idea that the NBA has control over who wins games. If they do have control, why haven’t the Knicks or Lakers made the playoffs the last 6 years? If the Lakers win 55 games, it will be because they earned it.

 

Lakers have 16 championships, I believe Boston has 17. NY has James Dolan, and sure I dont believe the NBA is rigged completely, but theirs a reason small markets have a tough time in the NBA, and its not entirely stars want to play in LA. Sacremento was better than the lakers. This years LAL vs Memphis game was a close game before the refs decided AD was gonna shoot FT’s every time down the court.

 

Against the Heat:

 

Is there a new thread for November?