Jonathan Watters wrote:The Wolves need to take a chance on one of these guards. Teague or Holiday would be my choice, maybe even Jennings if he's got his head on straight. It would be risky, but there is no reason not to take a risk in this draft. Your "sure thing" types are extremely unlikely to amount to players that will push our current mediocre roleplayers out of their spots.
Holiday is a heck of a player, and everybody will realize it if he goes back to UCLA sans knuckleheads like Darren Collison and Josh Shipp. Top 5 pick a year from now, so if he declares you have to take him.
Teague has fallen off quite a bit since his hot streak, but his explosiveness is super rare and he has the court vision to eventually be a point guard. It could be a rough couple of years in the process, though. Defense is a strength, that's a plus.
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I keep changing my mind on which guard I like best for this team, but I keep coming back to Curry. If anything, he stretches the defense and gives Al and Love more room to work. Unlike the other guards, he's made for a 1/2 court game. I imagine him taking all those shots we wished Miller would take this year. he would be a liability on defense, but my hope is he can wear the other teams PG out by running around off screens on offense a la Richard Hamilton.
Jonathan Watters wrote:I really wouldn't mind Aminu, either. He's not the brightest bulb on the tree, but has some good instincts in an elite physical package. At the very least he could add the shot blocking that the current lineup is so desperately lacking, so in that regard I think he actually does fit well with the Love/Jefferson frontcourt. (Note how Utah gets away with Boozer/Okur because they have Kirilenko at SF...)
That's true, but on offense Okur stands around on the perimeter and Kirilenko's game suffers as a result of playing out of position. I imagine Utah would struggle if they played Boozer, Mislap, and Kirilenko together.