If Roy misses his average of about 13-15 games a season I can't see a better guy to have fill in for him than Matthews. Matthews is a hard worker, a great defender and a team guy. McMillan will find plenty of minutes for him. As for the guy who thinks Roy can't play spot minutes at the PG (which he has his entire career). Thats like saying Pippen wasn't a point during his time in Portland. Absolutely absurd.
Wow. That's a no-brainer scenario. So I'm an Accountant who can go work for Ma & Pa Bookkeeping firm for $36K but will slowly rise to $43K and I get get loyalty and consistency and kisses for Christmas with the great management. Or I can go to Intel or Microsoft and get overpaid $65K annually to work for bad managers who really won't give me kisses on Christmas and aren't very stable in you never know if you're going to be there in 5 years since they have high turnover for deadbeat employees that don't give 100% and aren't worth being overpaid as originally thought. Hmm, tough choice - at least for everyone except the lazy slug who wants to just stick it out 30 years with some consistent company collecting checks while not doing any work.
When you start talking about Roy as PG and Matthews as our defensive stopper on all-star SF's, well, yeah. I mean, Matthews is a reserve player. He played some pesky defense and players were being nice in their comments about him, but he's, literally, years away from being a top tier defensive player. And since he's a reserve player for us, even that is in question.
He's still not a PG. And frankly, he's been putzing up as well late in games. He cost us two playoff games against Houston. No offense, but do you know much about basketball?
Before you insult me, try to comprehend and read between the lines. You completely manipulated my post so you can try and take down the guy with under 10 posts. Not once did I say Matthews was our defensive stopper on All-Star SF's. My point was to prove his size isn't much of a concern because he has played quality defense against All=Star Caliber SF's. Not only will his primary role be backing up Roy at the #2, but he can play spot up minutes at the #3 and also play with Roy on the floor. It isn't coming out of left field in terms of playing Roy at PG for some minutes when you need a defensive lineup on the floor for matchups. Roy has even discussed with Nate about playing Batum and Matthews on the court together at times. Why would you not want to run that lineup from time to time when you need defensive stops?
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The argument wasn't whether he's a PG or not. Its whether he's capable of playing PG. He is and he has. I know more about basketball than you do. I'm not the only one who thinks your nuts in saying Roy can't play the point.
Roy cost us 2 Playoff games against Houston? Maybe I have a short memory. But Roy was the only reason we won ANY games in that series to begin with.
Its not really an opinion thing though. Its a fact that Roy has played PG in crunch time during his entire career.
Dude, what are you talking about? If the one initiating the offense, and being the primary ballhandler isn't a PG, what is a PG? Is the PG simply the smallest guy on the court?
