Glen Grunwald should be working the phone right now getting some reinforcement.

On the bright side, I am glad to see use a 10 or 11 man rotation
while trying to protect our injury prone players Amare and Tyson.

Conditioning and resting players when needed will be KEY to our success this season.

loweyecue wrote:Guys we need a decent back up PG. our offense depends on it. We can beat bad teams by playing PG by committee like some of you want. But we want consistency input offense going in to the playoffs. Our depth at PG is being exposed right now. If we had a semi decent PG we would have embarrassed Boston tonight. Bibby and Diddy are both injury prone. We can't be scratching our heads come playoff time as to why TD and Shumpert can't get the offense going. Need to be proactive about closing this gap.

I will go on record as saying I don't believe any of us want this PG by committee thing. The issue is that there are very few decent PG's available and most get picked up. You can pretty much only pick from the scraps that are left or risky guys like Arenas. It's early in the season and we can't really say yet how our PG's will workout.

You also can't panic and do something crazy. You have to allow some time to let things develop and then make your move. It's just too early to make a concrete judgment no matter how bad it looks right now. The Shumpert injury is really unfortunate, but we can't get all crazy over it. Bibby will probably be back soon and I think Davis is probably closer than the team is making it seem.

But something tells me he's a strong dude, that lives in the weight room. And hopefully, this injury will help him focus more on his shooting form from the waist up.

I tore my Achilles...but when I was in a boot, I did nothing but shoot around for months. My shot was water when I fully healed.

Lets hope for the best. I think Shump is going to be another surprise pick from the draft, and could be our starting SG or 6 man later in the season.....Right now, the only thing that TD has over Shump is NBA experience. His length and defense will be need, along with his ability to attack the rim and break down the defense.

There's only a few players on this team with that ability to break down a defense and get all the way to the rim.....2 of them are injured....(Baron, Shump, Melo)

If we add anybody, we need to add somebody that can get to the rim.....Especially in half court sets.

TLover wrote:If get B.Davis & Shumpert back at the same time, we may have a new starting backcourt.

I'd rather start Shumpert at the 2 than Fields.

Fields & TD off the bench would be nice.

TD has better shooting now and may get the edge in starting with Baron. Bobby, Shumpert were working well in the second unit. Fields can be part of the mix and also backup Melo. Fields did better today than he had in preseason. Melo needs to look for him cutting to the hoop. A few of those will go a long way in restoring his confidence. He can shoot from outside just not a very high percentage, I am still positive he will get better and he should keep starting till TD/Shump can earn the 2-Guard spot.

nychamp wrote:I'm glad that Jefferies is out. More minutes for Harrellson. Let him stay out, permanent cheerleader. His game is much better suited for that anyway.