<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The moment that Jim O'Brien was named head coach of the 76ers, point guard Eric Snow realized that his days with the organization would be numbered. While the coach and player have the utmost respect for each other, their styles clashed like Shaq and Kobe. O'Brien is looking for someone to push the ball up the court, shoot three-pointers, and run, run and run some more. He doesn't believe in employing a single point guard to run the offense, instead asking whoever has the ball to take it up and dart toward the basket. Snow, with a more cerebral style, appeared to be the proverbial square peg in a round hole. So it wasn't surprising yesterday that after more than six seasons of distinguished service with the Sixers, Snow was dealt to the Cleveland Cavaliers for point guard Kevin Ollie and swingman Kedrick Brown. The 31-year-old Snow was known for his leadership, his defense and toughness, evidenced by the fact that he played in every game during the last two seasons. "Philly is going to a different style and there is no need to keep me around if the style didn't suit me," Snow said last night. "In the end it wouldn't help me and I'm going to a team that wants me to be me and to help." The trade signaled the return of Allen Iverson to point guard, a position he played early in his career before he was transformed into a shooting guard by Larry Brown. More than Iverson, the biggest beneficiary of the trade is second-year guard Willie Green, who has impressed O'Brien tremendously and is expected to start alongside Iverson in the Sixers' backcourt. While Ollie and Brown don't expect to receive serious playing time, the Sixers feel they benefited from the trade because younger players will pick up Snow's minutes. Plus it allows Iverson to have the ball in his hands even more, something that O'Brien feels is essential to his transition game. When asked if the move means that Iverson will be playing the point, O'Brien didn't hesitate to answer. "Yes, absolutely it does," he said in a conference call yesterday. "Not only Allen, but it opens the situation for a number of people from a minutes standpoint."</div> <div align="center">Full Story</div> This shouldn?t come to surprise to anyone but Iverson is moving to the PG slot. This doesn?t necessarily mean he's going to be distributing the ball non-stop, if anything he's going to average more points as PG. Now that the ball is going to be in his hands more than ever before and O'Brien is concentrating on making Allen Iverson, Allen Iverson the scorer, he will shoot the ball non-stop. Jim O'Brien coaching style doesn?t consist of a true PG which explains why Eric Snow was shipped out. His coaching philosophy is running and gunning. O'Brien likes the up-tempo, fast-break and 3-ball style, so with Allen Iverson moving to PG and Green playing the 2, it should spread the floor out some more for Iverson and allow him to create and O?Brien should also be pleased with the style of play that his new backcourt should or shall I say WILL provide him with. But even if O'Brien wants Iverson to score, Iverson is going have to create for other as well which might but some pressure on him. With players such as Green, Thomas, Robinson and Dalembart surrounding him he's going to have to do all the dishing, and still manage to be the leading scorer for the team, so moving him to the PG might not necessarily be a good thing after all. So do you believe moving Allen Iverson to the PG position is a good idea?
Wow so AI the point guard once again. I would hate before when people called AI a point guard when he was really a 2. Now I dont have to worry about that any more. Thats good that they are talking about moving him back to point guard. It will allow them to fit better in the matchups at 2 guard with guys like rip hamilton (6'7"), T-mac (6'6"), and other guards such as kobe when the sixers face them in the regular season. Now AI will have a better season then he has ever had at steals since he will be guarding the guy that brings the ball up the court the most. He use to be switched depending on matchups by larry some times guarding the point guard and when he did he excelled in steals. If AI excels in steals it will do what o'brien wants to do run the ball up and down the court. Something he wasnt able to do in boston since he had players just wanting to shoot the three.
This is a great move by O'brien i wanted AI to play PG for so long now..because he is an excellent passer when he want to be he used to be a quarter back so i think that helps a little and its his rightful position..so i believe it will work out well better matchup like pureskillz said make it easier for him..cant wait to see him play PG again.
I also like this move,maybe Allen will play PG better then he plays SG because its his natual position(even though his best years were at SG)I think now we will be a real exciting run and gun type of team,I just hope AI's to's go down but they would probally likely go up since he will have the ball in his hands a lot more.
This completely new territory for the Sixers. It will be sort of an experiment and things will evolve into whatever it becomes. AI does not have enough of a track record at point guard for anyone to be able to predict how it is going to work out. We can HOPE, which is what many are doing, but we cannot predict. So we just have to wait and see what happens. This will be a fun year for those that love to second guess and blame coaches and players when things don't go well.
Finally Im happy to have AI at the point. After seeing him play the point in all star games im happy that hes there.
not too sure about AI at the point. His assists numbers might go up, but i'm not too sure about him bringing the ball up, and then shooting, it really takes away a lot from a player like himself and I think his scoring numbers will go down too. I'm glad he is getting a chance at the point.
