Does Any One Contender Have as Big a Weakness as Houston at PG?

San Antonio and Dallas don't have centers. Utah don't have shooting guard, and Phoenix don't have big men and no bench but 7 great dwarfs. Every team had weakness because of the salary cap.

 

Great rebuttal.

 

But of course in the last 5 minutes of the game, the PG is the most crucial as opposing teams will concentrate on pressuring the PG.

Well, now you know why Rox always have problems in the last 5 minutes of the game.

 

It depends on the makeup of your team. The Bulls, Rockets and Lakers won without studly PG's.

 

Don't call Rondo the weakest link...

 

Look at your question. Essentially you're asking whether or not Nash, Parker, Williams, and Terry are better than James, Alston et al. Of course they are, that's a simple question - those guys are all current or former all-star, elite players. But then you could identify one position on any of the teams you listed and identify it as super weak, especially relative to the Rockets - no team has 5 all stars on the floor at once.

 

Or else Gardner-Webb will come destroy you.

 

Exactly!

 

You can add the Bird's Celtics and Shaq's other finals team, the Heat.

 

you are overblowing the importance of having a PG - when a Diop can't buy an offensive rebound or when Okur flops and doesn't get a whistle becuase he can't play defense otherwise - it hurts those teams quite a bit. That is why they are not 82-0.

Finally, as others have said, if having a great PG is so important then how did Ron Harper - a converted small forward, for chrissake, play PG for 5 championship teams. The guy had zero traditional PG skills.

 

well cleveland did go to the finals.... so if theyre included...yea

 

If small ball works then why are the Big-man deep Spurs the reigning dynasty and the Suns the Alydar of the western conference? Why did John Stockton, the greatest traditional PG ever, go championshipless while Kenny Smith, Derek Fisher, and Ron Harper have more rings than Saturn?

Honestly I don't care if the Suns can use small ball against Memphis during the regular season cause they aren't afraid of Swift. In a grind-out playoff game against Yao or Boozer or whoever they are going to have trouble like they did with Duncan.

 

they had larry hughes playing the point most of the season...

and now, daniel gibson >>>>>>>>> rafer

im not a rafer hater, but i dont believe he is going to get the job done. i would so much prefer mike james to start, and francis come off the bench (provided he gets in shape)

rafer is just not the guy

 

rafers the only guy that actually wants to get yao the ball and the only guy that can get it to him efficiently. hes also a solid defender. for some reason he cant hit open threes sometimes...

 

It really makes you wonder how bad Francis must be playing to not get a sniff.

Maybe Aaron Brooks at some point?

Tonight Rafer and James were horrid....but Yao...and Tmac....and Bonzi....

Man this team is versitile.

DD

 

we shud trade Rafer for Mo Williams

 

The game has changed dramatically from what it was 10-15 years ago. Now the league places a premium on quickness and athleticism. The slow, grind it out physical games of the 90s and 80s are gone. In those days, having a big, physical center was key because the position exemplified everything about physical grind it out basketball.

Fast forward 20 years and we see the pace of the game has changed, largely due to the new rules put in place. All the great teams have great PGs: SA has Parker, Utah has DWill, Phx has Nash, and Dallas has Terry and Harris. IMO, the PG position is NOW the most important position in basketball. Our PG hole I thought would be somewhat ameliorated with the addition of James, but so far I have been disappointed with what I've seen. He seems to have fallen rapidly since his last stint with us in 05. Hope I am wrong.