Steve Blake secures Backup PG spot

[AcecardZ]

Hope this is just a trade ploy, Blake is absolutely horrible.

Absolutely horrible sums it up perfectly.. He really is the nut low when it comes to NBA point guards that get any significant playing time.

[AcecardZ]

Watching Blake play pg reminds me of myself when I'd play pickup games and I ended up with a majority of the ball handling duties. I wasn't very good and my whole strategy was to just dribble around and try to make a simple pass to an open guy so I looked like I knew what I was doing.

He can barely shoot.
He can't dribble penetrate.
He can't finish at the rim against anybody.
He can't defend.

What doesn't do one thing well. NOT ONE!!!!

[Anklebreaker702]

I hope guys are starting to realize we aren't going anywhere with Blake as a back up. He's horrible & no upside. His best days are long behind him. Yet we run him out there night after night with young players on the bench that could be developing

Blake at backup PG for someone like CP3, Dwill, etc, would be fine... Because he wouldn't see the floor that much...

But for someone like Nash, it's a real problem, unless he's on the floor with Kobe most of the time...

Nash is going to need his rest if we want him effective in Spring. And Blake is too much of a liability to play major minutes when that happens unless he has someone else to shoulder the decision making load.

This is why I don't understand why we cut Glock. Guys keep saying he never stepped up his game defensively to a NBA level, but hell Blake does NOTHING on an NBA level. Yet we value him like he's gold. What for?

[Anklebreaker702]

Hope this is just a trade ploy, Blake is absolutely horrible.

Absolutely horrible sums it up perfectly.. He really is the nut low when it comes to NBA point guards that get any significant playing time.

And how do you justify no production on a nightly basis from your back up PG without giving someone else a chance. Blake doesn't even look to make a play! All he does is dribble around hold up his hands & fingers calling out plays to make it look like he's doing something, then makes the easy safe pass and wants nothing else to do with the ball that possession

[larry14r]

Hope this is just a trade ploy, Blake is absolutely horrible.

Absolutely horrible sums it up perfectly.. He really is the nut low when it comes to NBA point guards that get any significant playing time.

And how do you justify no production on a nightly basis from your back up PG without giving someone else a chance. Blake doesn't even look to make a play! All he does is dribble around hold up his hands & fingers calling out plays to make it look like he's doing something, then makes the easy safe pass and wants nothing else to do with the ball that possession

Lets see 1. the Lakers will never play rookies, 2. Blake has no trade value at all, and it will cost us a draft pick to move him. So we are stuck same thing with Duhon.