lilfishi22 wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:This should work out famously!
1- Which player is the better shooter to draw defenders away from double teams?
2- Full time point Guard with Booker's hamstring issues.
3- Which player is the better ballhandler/ downhill driver ( might be important for kickouts to shooters.
Just a few considerations around "point book."
The fact is Booker is a significantly better playmaker than Green. No one is super keen for Point Book but he's the best option we have in that role. Book is also a better drive and kick passer than Green for that matter. In every measure and stat available, Book is the better player, better playmaker, has the better court vision and has far more experience as the offensive hub, for better or for worse.
I acknowledge Book's injury issue and it is not something I consider lightly but if you want to move him off ball, we're going to be worse offensively
You're very right, and I get that consideration. But the problems surrounding this in the most basic sense is two fold.
1- Point Book will only once again lead to double and triple teams that have previously proven effective in taking the ball out of his hands or forcing a turnover under pressure.
Green not being the better established shooter/ scorer ( efficiency, etc) playing the SG role will only exacerbate this as defenses will know that they can sag off of Green more to double and triple team Booker to force him to cough up the ball or render him ineffective offensively.
But in his time playing at the PG position for Houston, his shooting efficiency, playmaking and other metrics did improve/ increase. So with better spacing (playing off of Booker in my suggested premise) I believe both players can optimize their natural skillsets/ abilities to their utmost potential.
2- Booker's natural position is SG and his elite skillset is shooting/ scoring. In this point Book scenario not only is he being underutilized in a role that doesn't compliment his elite natural abilities,
And it's going to put much more pressure on him to create because Green again won't pull the defense away from him as aggressively to give him space to even operate as a high level playmaker.
The difference now being that before, even despite their concerns, having KD and Beal (both elite established scoring threats) gave him space to operate effectively. But Green doesn't carry that reputation. Booker will get blitzed, and even if he could somehow pass out, which player would be the more advantageous scoring proposition situationally??
Would you rather hinge games on Booker passing to other lesser scoring options? Or being the elite offensive weapon recieving the pass from Green. I ask this because I believe that Green is possibly/ can be (with more spacing) a more dynamic ballhandler and isolalation penetrator that should be having the ball to pass to Booker as the much better elite shooter/ scorer.
Lastly, the usage/ minutes/ injury consideration. Which role do people think would put more pressure/ risk of injury on Booker's hamstring??
Constantly having the ball and trying to break down defenses to create offense, or to spot up, flare, pick n roll recieving a pass in natural motion offensively to score and flex defenses while still being an elite secondary facilitator through reactionary defensive pulls?
I'm just looking at maximizing Booker's best natural elite talents over trying an experiment that repeatedly limited his elite abilities in a lesser unnatural role.
He's simply much better and more elite at SG. And because Green is the lesser shooter but better and more athletic/dynamic ballhandler, he should be the point guard to free up Booker to be the elite scoring assasin he was in our finals run again!
I'd much rather have the defenses blitzing Green and have him passing out to Booker if double or triple teamed that the inverse.
Been there, done that. Still, I’ll give you props when you deserve them. 
