Agreed. I know we need to get a more versatile offense, but giving Tmac pg won't help much. Upgrade at pg is the only realistic move anyways. I doubt any new coach that comes in would make that move.
DaDakota Drexler was one of the best passing 2 guards in the history of the league. And if my memory serves me well, Portland played him at the 1 for a year. Portland got allot of Drexler when he played the 1, and it may have been the best for the team that year. The thing to remember is they only played him at the 1, for one year. Magic, as versatile as was, could play any position on the floor. He even played a little bit of center in the finals one year. (long time ago.) Drexler was most productive and most beneficial to this team when he played the 2. Magic was most productive when he played the point. They only played other positions when there team absolutely needed them to. And I agree with you, Tmac would certainly make a better point than Rafer and the team probably would have been better off with TMac playing PG. The point I am going to make is this, if you play TMac at the point, you still have to have a someone that can play the 2 guard. I also feel TMac is most productive, and contributes the most to the team at the 2. Moving him to point would reduce his productivity. IMO, the best long term solution, is to find someone that can knock down the open jumper on consistent basis. It would solve allot of problems, and give would TMac and Yao more room to work. It does not have to be a point, but would be nice. While I am no Rafer fan, we also have to remember, why we traded for Rafer. Mike James, did not exactly handle the ball very well, and was a ball hog. So we trade for Rafer, and the offensive runs so much smoother and we have fewer turnovers. If we get rid of Rafer for someone that can shoot the ball at decent clip, but does not handle the ball very well puts us back in the same situation we where in before we traded for Rafer. Playing TMac between 10 to 20 minutes a night might have worked. You could have then brought in Bonzi, Snyder or V_Span to play some minutes at the 2. Doing this has several obvious benefits. Van Gundy was just too stubborn in his refusal to play certain players, and too short sited to try different line-ups. I will stop here with my disdain for Gundy. There are other threads out there for bashing Gundy.
1) Trade Battier for playmaking PG who can also play D - Jason Kidd (instant leadership & toughness). 2) Move McGrady back to SF. 3) Draft a long SG who is a lock down defender w/3 pt shooting range - Corey Brewer (package 1st w/player(s) - e.g. Head and/or others to move up). 4) Sign an athletic vet PF (Anderson Varejao). *Cheaper PF options (ie Projects): Malick Badiane, Jawad Williams, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Amir Johnson, Dej Akindele *Cheaper PG options: John Gilchrist, Will Blaylock, Taquan Dean (a tougher Luther Head), Anthony Roberson (a cheaper Luther Head w/better handles)
you people keep saying how you want t-mac to takeover more, but you want him to be the PG ? what a horrible idea. t-mac shoulders way too much of the responsibilty for this teams offense. someone else should do the creating so t-mac can do what he does best, SCORE.
exactly.. get a pg like tony parker and we're good to go for awhile. We just need one competent pg...
No way I would want TMac at PG. What about his defense assignments? Maybe he would guard a 2 or a 3, but if he has to guard the point guard, he would get lit up night in and night out in the west. I just don't want to see him chase Chris Paul, Tony Parker, Steve Nash, Baron Davis, and Derron Williams.
Say, I'd say that deck chair looks better with a PG label on it than a SF label - hey is that an iceberg back there?
The main reason Jordan started winning is because he didnt have to initiate the offense. All he had to do was post up on either block and go score. We already have the player to relieve Tmac of having to guard the best player (Battier). Now we just need someone to set up the offense and give tmac the ball in the low block to score.
I actually want to see less T-Mac running the offense. Don't get me wrong, he does one hell of a job at it, but I feel that his own offensive game suffers from it. We need to open up our role at PG. Say what you want about Rafer, but he is capable of initiating an offense on his own -- it just hasn't been the current Rockets' game plan. But regardless of whether its Rafer, V-Span, Mike James, or whomever is running the point for us next year, we need a player that actively creates.
Panathinaikos just won the Euroleague title. They're celebrating a title, while he can't even see the floor in the NBA. You think Span is dying a little more inside now?
