Why are some people so high on the idea of getting a combo guard. I mean, don't we have 3 in Penny, Marbury and Jamal in the first place? Do people not realize that our only pure shooting guard is on the IR and may never come off? Why can't we try to either draft a pure PG or a pure SG or sign one, like Rush, or Lindsey Hunter, or trade Marbury or Crawford to improve the frontcourt, and so we could draft our own pure guard.

We need a couple of players whos skills fit purely for one of those positions, b/c we need a shooting guard who doesn't just jack up shots, like Crawford, and we need a PG whos job is to run the offense ALL THE TIME. Not someone who is inconsistent in whether he passes to his teammates a lot, or scores a lot, like Marbury. Where has this gotton us?

I'm sick of "Combo Guards". You don't win with combo guards. You win with pure pg's or pure sg players.

Posted by MX25:

You don't win with combo guards. You win with pure pg's or pure sg players.

You win with post presence on offense and on defense. You definately dont win with pure PGs, pure SGs. Especially if you are defining pure SG as our pure shooting SG. Stephon with a post player will be a good team. We dont need to worry about PGs or SGs,m we need to worry about Center!

I'll tell ya I got nothing bad to say about combo guards after the job Chauncey Billups and Rip Hamilton did last year.

The Billups/Hamilton duo last year was pure class. Sound offensively and defensively, and backed up by some fine defensive frontcourt players. Our Marbury/Crawford duo is not even close to being in that class. It is less efficient offensively, lousy defensively, and is backed up by lousy front court defenders. If Houston was healthy we'd be pretty much set. But he isn't so we need to replace him with a pure 2. But before we do that, we need to find ourselves a 5 and a 3.

you want to count penny as part of the core of this team, fine.

i would like to bring in another player through the draft who'll be here for the next 5 years. marbury is a scoring guard who gets assists b/c of his offense. crawford is a shooter first but is learning to be a point guard. so we need a guard that can run the offense. i have no problems drafting a PURE PG. but we also need a starting SG b/c i think crawford is best suited as a 6th man.

so take your pick - draft a PG, move marbury to SG. or draft a starting SG and bring craw off the bench. or take a combo guard and rotate between the 3.

but in my eyes, penny is not a part of this team nor should be relied upon to do anything. in fact, i would love to BUY HIM OUT this summer to open up a roster spot and prevent us from trading him for nastier contracts.