Twelve20Nine wrote:Quake Griffin wrote:Twelve20Nine wrote:
So your best example is a team from 23 years ago and a Suns team that didn't win anything. Then we are talking about a guy who spent half the season hobbled . If we all know that the superstar point guard is not the key to the promise land why do we continue to put them on a pedestal like they are so important to have . History has showed us time and time again they are not needed. Now look at the some of the top tier of Points in the league today. Russell Westbrook coming off an injury and has a unbelievably low basketball IQ. Rondo again coming off an injury showed he isn't a star player you can build around. Darren Williams again injured most of the season got a coach fired and lacks any real leadership ability. Derrick Rose coming off injury . Kryie Irving Injury prone . Point Guard is not the position you build around in the NBA. So why be held hostage by one who has not accomplished anything his whole career.
without question. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt by looking at small point guards.
we wont mention another well known PG who won 5 titles and made it to 9 finals in his career
who was he? oh nobody. just a not so well spoken commentator and advocate for HIV.
should i inquire as to who the leader of the 2004 Pistons was? who the 2004 finals MVP was?
hmph.
so back to my original point.
you can build around a PG. question is...do you have scoring wings? are they long? do they play defense? good defensive big men? do they make rotations? can they guard the post? do they rebound? do you have scoring off the bench? defense? rebounding etc. etc.
You do know I mentioned magic johnson in my other posts and that he is an outliers meaning against the ordinary . You do know he won his first title and finals mvp playing center right . So your going to give max money to a guy
(Chris Paul)that not only is going to dictate who the coach is going to be ,who the players so forth and so on and
has had zero success in the playoffs and who plays a historically low impact position to begin wtih. Then your
looking at outliers like the bad boy pistons who have been mischaracterized as being lead by a point guard but
really had a 3 combo guard backcourt core. Magic Johnson who could play all 5 positions and the 04 pistons who
were made up of misfit group of solid pros any of which could have won the finals mvp to support your argument.
Look its pretty simple the clippers should be building around Blake and continue develop him as a player. Chris
Paul is not your ticket to contending he's 28 with bad knees .
Kareem rolled his ankle in Game 5.
Magic went and won 1 game with an epic performance at Center. He didn't play center and he damn well wasn't a good enough shooter to play the other wing positions just because he was 6'9"
he doesn't have bad knees. he had a torn meniscus and had it repaired.
his knee injury this year didn't have ANYTHING to do with his meniscus. he bumped knees with JJ Reddick.
We are building around Paul and Griffin. !st things 1st - getting Paul locked into a long term deal with our team. Doc Rivers, Garnett, potential bledsoe for Afflalo are all positive deals for us if CP3 decides to stay or not.
Paul's playoff success?
do we need to point out his teams...or how ur using a circumstantial truth to validate a point. Paul has never been favored to go far in any playoff. he's never been the favorite to win the west. He's never been predicted to go to the finals etc. etc.
why would you pin something like that on him knowing that the good teams that ALWAYS go far have great organizational structure and that he's done nothing but deal with a broken home in NOLA and a rehabbing home in LAC?
again...u guys are a dime a dozen and annoying.
oh and Isaiah led the piston team.
i already said a short guard would need a more talented team around him...you either ignored that or wanted to use different words to validate that point. get over it.
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