SparksFly87 wrote:Where are all these elite athletic point guards every year around June? This year is Stephen Curry and Bellanedova ( Irving) . Supremely skilled guys who can play on and off ball and can shoot. In the past 20 years most of the point guards who have won champships we're shooters and role players not athletic physical point guards who dominate the basketball and drive to the basket. I don't think having a a big athletic point guard who can dunk is a winning formula especially for a team building inside out around Embiid. Russell fits us perfectly and is a better decision maker and shooter than Mudiay will ever be.
Believe me, I know what you mean by this. PG for me is the least important position, mainly due to their deficiency in length thus having a hard time creating much impact for 48 minutes. I also know how a typical 3+facilitate+defensive PG is enough to win the championship, as long as you have a dominant swing or center.
But you have a top 3 pick. With a top 3 pick, you need to take a rare FREE opportunity to land a close to 30 PER guy (superstar). And that's why for me Conley is a bad pick or you don't use it to get Kyle Korver. You don't use a top 3 pick to get a player you think is championship caliber. You use your top 3 pick to get a player who gets you championship (roleplayer vs star-superstar rationale).
No, Mudiay won't be here to dunk over the Goberts of this league. His role here is to breakdown the defense and create opportunities for our guys whether it's Noel/Embiid down low or our shooters. Like I said, a championship caliber team is dynamic. You can't just rely on Embiid to carry your team, because in a play-off setting their will be a lot of "counters" where he will face with guys like Kedrick Perkins or Marc Gasol that would give him a hard time. What happens when our sole guy who can create is shut down? That is where you need a guy who can also breakdown the defense from the perimeter.
That's when the Harden-D12, Clyde-Hakeem and Shaq-Kobe concept/built comes in. And Hinkie's boss, Morey, knew this and talked about this when they tried to get D12 back then. Brett Brown is also very familiar with this with the Spurs with their drive and dish offense with a mix of low post offense for TD in crunch time.
Scoring doesn't make you a star, if not Kevin Martin should be a perennial star in this league. It's the ability to make your teammates better (BPM+PER). And on the offensive end, with a top 3 pick, my opinion is that you don't use it to acquire a shooter. But you use it for a PG who is a match-up nightmare for the opponent that can create and score or to make his teammates better.
You want a shooter? Get Robert Covingtons in D-league. With a top 3 pick, you want a match-up night mare that will command help defense and that for me is Mudiay.
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