Posted by TMS:

if we can't draft a star calibre PG, then i'd rather draft the best defensive shotblocking bigman i can find at our draft position.

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by SlimPack:

Well from what I hear DJ Augustin seems to be the best pure point guard, although I haven't seen him play. But I think Jarred Bayless can be a better point guard even though he's more of a score first point guard. Bayless seems to have more of a leadership/take over the game quality. After that I guess is darren collison who looks pretty good but I've only seen him twice. Tywon Lawson is pretty good too. Although for some weird reason I haven't seen any UNC games this year. But I do remember thinking that he was pretty good last year. (I have to watch more college games).

Man I hope we can keep our pick and get another to get a PG though. that would be pretty good.

My son likes DJ Augustin and from what i'm reading he seems to be more of what we're looking for in terms of running the show. He's a little smaller than I like my PG's, but he's getting it done:

"In terms of his point guard game, Augustin also looks as good as ever running his team’s offense and managing the tempo, dishing out assists every which way, whether it be feeding the post, pushing the ball in transition, drive-and-dishing, or just finding open shooters on the perimeter. He gets the tendency to hold on to the ball at times, but it’s often due to lack of movement from his teammates, while he waits for something to develop. Augustin’s looked really good in transition thus far, keeping his head up and making accurate long passes to get easy baskets for his teammates. He’s also looked very good adjusting with the ball in mid-air in the halfcourt, being able to find an open man if he gets caught in a tough position.

If Augustin can keep up his current production, he should be all but a lock for the first round in the draft this year, with the lottery definitely not out of the picture. If he can maintain his 7.0 assists per game average, he’ll out-produce what Chris Paul, Raymond Felton, Deron Williams, and Mike Conley put up in their draft years, though he’ll need to bring his turnovers down a bit to be mentioned with them in A:T ratio. Augustin may not quite be on the Deron Williams or Chris Paul level as a prospect, but no one should be surprised if Augustin becomes a good starting NBA point guard not far down the road. He has a very complete game with a nice balance of scoring and passing, with the only thing really holding him back being his size, which is somewhere between 5’11 and 6’0, though his strong build somewhat compensates for that, and he wouldn’t be the first 6’0 point guard starting in the league. "

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/D.J.-Augustin-1181/

Nix, good guy to bring up. I do think Augistine is a sleeper in this draft, I know DraftExpress compares him to Jameer Nelso as a best case, but I see another former Longhorn when I see DJ play - TJ Ford, it's funny they are nearly the same exact height and weight too. Both love to play up and down at a very quick pace, both good in the midrange game, both not great 3pt shooters.

I wouldn't mind getting a guy like Augustine, but I think he's going to have to play in the type of offense that Phoenix and Toronto play in to be really successful in the NBA. With all that said, I'm still high on my man Derrick Rose

Posted by playa2:

The pg that's gonna be good one day is only a freshmen and will stay in school next yr the name is Johnny Flynn of Syracuse. A nystate native who grew up and gets it what it is to be a knick fan growing up.

The kid from Niagara Falls NY at 6"0 is shooting 47% as a freshmen 77 ft%
5.2 asst per gm.

Good floor leader who loves getting his teammates the ball and isn't afraid to knock down the big shot.

Still young , but the promise is there



^ Here he scores 24 pts against Georgetown

[Edited by - playa2 on 24-01-2008 08:23]

Posted by nixluva:

Well I wouldn't expect that they'd be exactly on Nash or Magic's level, but more in that direction. To be more to the point of the kind of guard we might be looking for it would be a Brandon Roy, Chris Paul type of guard. I don't know if any of the guards in this draft are like those 2, but that would seem to be what we'd be looking for.

Posted by crzymdups:

I want a passing PG. Bayless reminds me more of a Tony Parker type. And, yes, I know Tony is very good, but I don't know if he'd be quite as good without Duncan.

Something tells me Eric Gordon is gonna be the next Dwyane Wade type player in the draft. I know he's not a PG, but I think we should try to just take the best player available, especially if it means getting an all-star. We need talent. (Granted, we have talent, but I want two way talent that plays hard and plays smart).

[Edited by - crzymdups on 23-01-2008 8:10 PM]

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by nyk4ever:

DERRICK ROSE. Freshman PG, Memphis 6'4 200 pounds.
Good shooter, great slasher, great passer, can play uptempo or half-court, plays defense, is coachable. This is our guy.

Bip, I expected you to pick up the Rose slack for me. What happened?

[Edited by - nyk4ever on 01-23-2008 11:11 PM]

That's because he sucks