Is Goran Dragic really our future PG?

[lilfishi22]

lilfish,

just to clarify, he doesn't have ugly shooting mechanics.. his stroke is great. its just that he hasnt hit the shot consistently yet, although it looks like hes improved somewhat.

Yeah not sure what I was thinking when I put that in. I was thinking of Barbosa's shot the whole time I did that post. Scrub that out. His shooting mechanics looks fine.

When I say he needs to work on his technique, I didn't mean his shooting, i meant more about his on-ball defense technique, positioning and also his ball handling when penetrating.

[eastsidecrossover]

I would not say great, but good shooting mechanics.

I think this kid is at best the co opposite of what nash is. He can drive, and play some D. But the nba PG's are a whole other level than euroleague my friends. I personally think they are way overpaying for this cat, but understand with the buy out it has to be. After a great player, most of the time, the player who is thought to replace him usually fails, and I see that in Dragic. He will run back to europe like some of these over hyped players. He will be the between guy until we find our true franchise player.

I personally think this is the FO over hyping this kid and trying to sell him as the future with amare. As of now, as long as he can play D, and handle the ball to a point and give the ball to our good players, Im fine with him now.

Again, I do not see this kid here over 5 years.

[JohnVancouver]

[quote="eastsidecrossover"]I would not say great, but good shooting mechanics.

I think this kid is at best the co opposite of what nash is. He can drive, and play some D. But the nba PG's are a whole other level than euroleague my friends. I personally think they are way overpaying for this cat, but understand with the buy out it has to be. After a great player, most of the time, the player who is thought to replace him usually fails, and I see that in Dragic. He will run back to europe like some of these over hyped players. He will be the between guy until we find our true franchise player.


--- I would be happy if he makes me forget about Rodriguez, Fernandez and Rondo ... sh*t, we turned into the point guard fairy there for a few years - leave some money under the pillow and we'll give youa PG.

[flanpaw42]

i kinda see him as a cross between hinrich and parker. i think almost all of his problems can be fixed by nash and porter. the fundamentals can be taught by porter. other things can be taught by nash.

i have read people say that barbosa and banks were supposed to learn under nash, but both are more like undersized 2 guards and mike d wasnt real big on teaching. dragic seems more like a pg but in the mold of hinrich or even kidd. i am reluctant to say kidd, because kidds vision was off the charts evenbefore coming into the league.


i think porter will help out alot as far as teaching our rookie smalls the fundamentals. i like all of our coahing staff. majerle, and gentry will be very good at developing, and kokoskov seems to be very good at teaching, just from what i have read. cartwhright is obviously our bigs coach and while he was never the most skilled, he always was fundamentally sound, was a very good defender, has always been considered a mentor even as a player, and he has a few rings to his credit..

i think good coaching goes along ways. people are only concetrating on our players, but we look to have a very experienced and good coaching staff. three of our coaches have head coaching experience. just with teams that were rebuilding or had bad players.