Posted by Bippity10:

To be honest with you Nix if this backcourt really struggles to run the offense with the two big guys it may be time for a whole new backcourt. At that point you really have to find a PG and a SG that can grow with the two front court players. I'm not saying you definitely get rid of all four but the possibility should not be taken off the table.

I hope that doesn't happen, cuz that would be a disaster. We're right at the edge with Steph and Nate. Both will want to do well this year. Nate for obvious reasons and Steph to put a crown on his legacy. He can make up for some of his bad years with a big year as a floor leader. Jamal is the one that I can't get a feel for. Last year he really disappointed me. Then he had a stretch where he was taking it to the hole and hitting this floaters and I liked that. He really only needs to focus on the basics. Make the post feed when it's there. Catch and shoot when open. Fake and Drive when the defender is there. Feeding the post seems to be easier for Mardy. I just hope his confidence and form on his shot is there. If it is he's my pick for taking over the PG spot. I've always liked big PG's. His D and rebounding are a huge plus. He looked so poised at the end of last season. That was some invaluable experience he got and I think we'll be better for it.

Hmmmm let's see, Mardy 4 years at a university playing for a coach that preaches fundamentals. Jamal being told to shoot everywhere he goes. This explains a lot. There is a reason why guys like Jamal are so frustrating. They have out of this world talent but because of their lack of college experience and coaching they know so little of the fundamentals. And as we see with Detroit and San Antonio fundamentals are so important to winning. This is why you can add so many good players to a roster and still only see 35 and 40 wins. I'm hooping these guys learn, but if not we may have to go out and find guys that already know this stuff

I don't know if Mardy is that guy, but in our current situation I'd much rather go down with him trying to become that guy and maybe having a veteran that knows the game mentoring him than to continue to let Marbs run the show with the hopes that he can elevate us to a 6 or a 7 seed. A Derek Harper type a Doc Rivers type. An Avery Johnson type. Anyone taht can teach our young guards the finer parts of the game and help them to actually become that guy. Right now we are relying on vets that are learning the finer points themselves. I personally don't understand this.

Posted by Bippity10:

I don't know if Mardy is that guy, but in our current situation I'd much rather go down with him trying to become that guy and maybe having a veteran that knows the game mentoring him than to continue to let Marbs run the show with the hopes that he can elevate us to a 6 or a 7 seed. A Derek Harper type a Doc Rivers type. An Avery Johnson type. Anyone taht can teach our young guards the finer parts of the game and help them to actually become that guy. Right now we are relying on vets that are learning the finer points themselves. I personally don't understand this.

Pardon me while I get optimistic on you. It's funny cuz if we get the kind of performance out of Zach and Curry that I think we can reasonably expect, then I believe Steph could actually lift this team to a level higher than 6 or 7. Don't underestimate him, just because this TEAM hasn't yet put it all together. Steph can be a potent part of a good team. If you have Zach and Curry having a good game and Steph filling in, which he can do quite easily, you can have 3, 20 pt scorers in there easy. I don't expect that for 82 games, but in the playoffs Steph could EASILY raise his level of play, as he showed last year. That Steph playing with Zach and Curry at playoff time is a serious Trio. He showed that he can play the role of a facilitator last year. It took him a while, but he did get it.

See to me it makes Steph more dangerous, Jamal, Lee and Balk more dangerous when you have Zach and Curry on the team. It amplifies their effectiveness, cuz they're always there taking up the slack as the other team is so preoccupied with stopping Zach and Curry. All of these guys only need just a moments distraction and they're gonna kill their defender. Lee and Balk are gonna kill teams on the boards while they're distracted with stopping Zeddy. If you think about the abilities of these players, you know that's true. Exactly how are teams gonna stop us for 48 mins is what i'm wondering. I think you can expect us to be one of the higher scoring teams in the league this year. IMO other teams missed out on what adding Zach can do for you if you have a good team around him. Zach has guys out there with him that can crank it up at any moment. Jamal and Steph clearly have that kind of ability. Now we only need one of those guys to step up on any given night and that could put us over the top. LeBron didn't have that and it cost them. Heck even a guy like Nate is more explosive than most of the guys LeBron played with. This is what makes adding Zach so important IMO.

Yeah I know it's all on the offensive side, but that's the nature of this team. We can't go away from that. We can only look to play enough D to make our Point Differential come out on the plus side. I'm hoping for a +2 at least. We're already a better defensive team than Wash. We just need to tighten things up on D, lower the TO's and i've got a good feeling that we can have a strong year.

Aren't you glad i'm here to spread some sunshine and smiles?

"Pardon me while I get optimistic on you." - nixluva

Somebody gotta use that in their signature.

[Edited by - enyspree on 22-08-2007 10:11 AM]