Which position would you build around?

hardenisaboss · Sep 2, 2013

KillScarz said: ↑

PG for me. Defensively your Center makes your D better. But your Offense comes from your PG.
If you build around your PG you can get a D first C and turn him into a decent scorer because your PG will make him better.
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historically whenever you build around a PG the team does not achieve much. The only exception was Isiah Thomas of the Bad Boy Pistons. And no Magic Johnson does not count cuz he was 6"8, basically a point forward

Deckard · Sep 2, 2013

JuanValdez said: ↑

Centers are too dependent on the rest of the team to be effective. They need someone to feed them in the post, and they need targets to pass to when half the defense piles on top of them. And the way they call the game now, where you can't breathe on a guard but you can claw gashes in the center's back (and a center who can shoot free throws well is a rarity, even among the good ones), the center on offense is climbing uphill. Sure, having a great player in the low post bends defense out of shape, which is great, and having him on defense is great protection (gotta keep the big guy out of foul trouble too though!), but I think it's a hard slog.

A wing can start an offense with the ball in his hands, he's mobile enough that he's hard to double-team, he can shoot inside and out, can even post up just like a center (and often against a defender who doesn't have to defend that sort of play as much), can get foul calls and hit free throws, and has more positional flexibility (sliding up to go small or down to go big, or switching defensive assignments as necessary).
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Come on, JV. Hakeem didn't have a great wing player until Clyde, halfway through the second championship season. Sure, there will never be another Dream, but I would want the nearest thing to him to build around. Now if part of your argument is that the league has changed, bumping up the value of a great wing, then that's another argument. -

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Which position would you build around?

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