At what point are we just going to have to discuss the possibility that the current rules just favor guards entirely too much? It seems like anybody given the minutes seems to start putting up star numbers. In the last couple seasons alone Darren Collison, Ty Lawson, Aaron Brooks, Kyle Lowry and others have all put up numbers we never would have predicted. Meanwhile, in Dallas, they're raving about the potential of Beaubois, Clippers fans are raving about the potential of Bledsoe, and Jrue Holiday seems to be emerging in Philly. Raymond Felton was having a fantastic season in New York. DJ Augustin is playing better than I'd ever imagine he would in Charlotte. And Mike Conley is having a great year in Memphis. Westbrook has emerged as a superstar in OKC - and he wasn't exactly hyped like Rose or Wall coming out of College. Stephen Curry gets the hype in Golden State. Brandon Jennings took people by surprise last season and has continued on his border-line all-star path. Rondo emerged as an All-Star in Boston. Rose has emerged as an MVP candidate in Chicago. Wall is a rookie of the year candidate in Washington. And all of that is without talking about the guys who have been doing it for a while like Nash, Kidd, Paul, Williams, Billups and Parker. Is there just a greater wealth of talented point guards in the league than ever before, or are the rules giving them that much of an advantage?
It may be that most players growing up want to dominate the ball and make plays for themselves or their team. They want to be the focus of the team and they dream of making flashy plays like a Steve Nash. This contributes to them practicing more ball handling drills and developing handles that are becoming the norm. When they get to the NBA they know they can develop success when a team devotes running a system that plays to the PG's strengths. Hell, DeMarcus Cousins even wanted to be a PG coming into college
he really is. Check this out. http://www.nba.com/statistics/playe...qualified=N&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=Last 10 Games
Even in the days of Magic Johnson and John Stockton there were the Jay Humphries, Derek Harper, Sleepy Floyd types who had nice numbers above league average, hovering between merely solid or being a star.
True, but those guys could really impact a game. Like Mark Jackson for example. Nowadays, a guy like Sessions or T. Evans can go off statistically and somehow contribute very little to a winning effort.
who cares, its a better brand of bball, than the come down dump it to said post player watch him dribble for 10 to 15 secs and turn around and shoot brand of ball in the 90s
He's doing well, he was a top flight back up last year, and it should be clear that/why the Nuggets were never interested in Aaron Brooks. I'll stop short of any "star" talk, at least for now. The D isn't anything to high five over and he needs to dominate a game here and there for that chatter to start.
Ty Lawson made 10 3s tonight! Ty Lawson made 10 3s tonight! He has made a ridiculous 10 3s out of 11 3pt attempts. jesus. record is 12 held by kobe and donyell marshall. but i don't think anybody has shot this well, attemtping this many 3s. props
So we get completely and totally humilated, while the one good PG we drafted whom we traded has basically a "FU" game. Oh, but Kahn's taken the Wolves into a good direction and hasn't done a bad job with what he's had to work with, RIGHT GUYS?!?
That was my reaction at first but I think he is a T-Wolves fan. Minnesota drafted Lawson and traded him on draft night.
Kahn would have been so embarrased after watching his team get destroyed by someone he had and gave away for nothing. In hindsight it looks like they should have kept Lawson and traded Flynn. oh well..
Somehow someone somewhere will derail this crazy gravytrain into a Morey-should-be-sent-to-dimentionXXX-thread. The truth is there's a magical superstar that was available the whole time. Morey was just hiding him from us.
