Speaking to Orlando Magic season ticket-holders at an exclusive event on Thursday, general manager confirmed the team's worst-kept secret: it intends to use first-round NBA Draft choice Victor Oladipo at point guard in his rookie season. "We see that as the future of the league," Hennigan said. Orlandoinstripedpost.com Read more at http://hoopshype.com/rumors.htm#wIezrlQHRsC6CvoJ.99 ^ Not sure I agree with this. There is a trend towards more of a combo guard at the point, but IMO this is a stretch. I can't see that experiment lasting long. Oladipo just does not have the handles.
Wasn't Gilbert Arenas just an "athlete" coming out of college though? He ended up being pretty awesome as a point guard.
Didn't Arenas have good handles though? I thought he was an Athlete who couldn't really shoot and made bad plays but could dribble coming out of college.
Don't they still have Jameer Nelson? I assume they will start Oladipo off as the backup PG? Playing Oladipo and Afflalo together will be interesting.
Don't get all fired up on me. I just think playing on obvious SG/undersized SF at PG is stupid, considering he's never played the position.
I was listening to the BS report a month or so ago when it first came out that Orlando wanted to start him off at point this year and Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe were laughing about that exact issue. The "Secret" way to tank while it looks like your trying your best to develop players.
After a Sonic trade, McMillan changed his starting backcourt from PG Gary Payton and SG Brent Barry, to PG Brent Barry and SG Ray Allen. Tht 6-5 Barry, who wasn't a great dribbler and had never been a PG, did just fine in his remaining 2 Sonic years as the PG. How did he dribble? Verrrry carefully, hunched over, protective. It can be done.
No, it was Qyntel Woods. Even worse. Let's see, the guy was 6'8", had never played the position and was dumber than a box of rocks. Exactly the type of guy you don't want running your offense and making decisions with the game on the line. At least it only took Cheeks a game and a half to realize this was a stupid idea. BNM
Barry was a much better dribbler than Oladipo and an excellent passer. I see no comparison between the two, other than they could both jump pretty well. Bones was not as explosive as Oladipo but I believe he did win the slam dunk contest. And of course not nearly as good of defender. But again he was an excellent passer.
Yes, you are right. I wonder if he thought about it because when trying to look up something about it; I saw he was quoted to the effect they had different options for Miles when they traded for him. And also ran across something that Allen Iverson was angry at Cheeks because Iverson thought Cheeks had a really bad idea, to try Iguodala at PG.
At SG, Barry looked ahead, dribbling freely, bounding about. At PG, he looked down, paranoid of the quicker PG trying to steal the ball, carefully measuring his passes. He bent over, using his body to shield the ball from his shorter defender. My point was that a SG who's a good dribbler can be a PG who's an adequate dribbler.
