Respect your opinion. IMHO, I think Hezonja SHARING backup ballhandling with Ant instead of just relying on Hezonja (or ET when he was here, God that's good to type) will make all the difference. But that could just be me being optimistic - we'll see.
I think Point forward is an extremely vital role in todays game, like I don't think you can have a contender without a Forward who can handle the ball, initiate the offense, orchestrate an offense push the ball up the court, and if they can shoot that helps too. I dont question the roles importance, I would question if Mario’s the right guy, I think we saw ET was not the right guy.
I have been in favor of an extra pg as well. Having said that I do like the idea of a Mario, Hood, Simons, Zach, and either Tolliver or Skal 2nd unit. Lot of shooters and 3 decent ball handlers
Nurk and Hezonja are TIGHT. From Jason quick. “He is my brother, nothing more to say.” Said Hezonja. They grew up literally door to door. “He is probably closer to my father than I am.” https://twitter.com/jwquick
He actually had good numbers the last 3 games playing point forward for the Knicks. I believe that what he do for the 2nd unit and play the 4 on defense.
The Hezonja i watched in Barcelona and Croatian national team didn't play the point. If he grew up doing it in high school cool but you can hear similar stories about guys like AD etc. He is far from Turner in playmaking skills. Turner could be a full time playmaker, his issues were other things. Hezonja cannot run a team. To share some ball handling responsibilities yeah, but not run a team. Not like Turner did last season. Lets hope Simons, CJ and Hezonja can all do their part.
I guess one good thing is that if Hezonja blows up and becomes a Green-like PointF, Portland will have the space next summer to re-sign him
By the end of the year, who will be the "Toni Kukoc will wish he was as good as Super Marior" poster? @SwishMario
If Hezonja really is 240, then he becomes a real option at the four, maybe even as a starter. I know his best minutes so far have come at the four in Orlando, I just don’t know how we’d do on the boards as he’s pretty weak in that department. The potential playmaking out of the position is really intriguing though.
