A petition for the signing of Royal Ivey

[000078ude54]

The thread starter hasn't seen Ivey play, clearly.

He has more chance of being cut from the league than staying in it and you want him on the C's?

I'd start Tony Allen before I'd sign Ivey at 12th man.

[campybatman]

The biggest knock on Rondo is that he can't shoot. The Celtics don't want another Rondo as a backup pg, they need something different for games when the opposition has been able to force Rondo to shoot bad shots.

Part of my interest obviously has to do with myself selecting a backup who can be paired with House since the latter is more effective when he's allowed to be a scorer. Snow always comes to mind because he wasn't really that great of a shooter but complemented Iverson, shorter by comparison and an undersized off guard like House, and did all the other things well or good enough to offset his weaknesses. He ran the offense, played defense (shifting over to guard Iverson's likely taller man), was a leader and scored when he needed to. I'm thinking, perhaps, you can recreate a similar tandem in Ivey and House where you can get the best of of their strengths with playing them together.

If the thinking is that you don't want "another Rondo" from the Celtics. Then you'll have a tough time deciding on a veteran backup out there who's left. Because the league isn't short of point guards who like Rondo have an inability to shoot the ball with any level of consistency. For example, Portland was said to have a reluctance toward signing A. Miller for a concern that related to shooting. They don't view Miller as a good or good enough shooter. What I'm saying with Ivey is that that argument is valid, but is too valid the idea that you also look at the other skills, tangibles that make that player (whoever you've an interest in at point guard) a worthwhile signing.

If that player doesn't prove to be Ivey. Fine. I just would like to be able to find that out by giving him an opportunity.

[OBisHalJordan]

its hard to take seriously ideas from a poster who makes a thread every time he reads any piece of sports journalism and then quotes himself in his own sig. how about this: petition for bosnai to stop making his daily irrelevant threads