Trade 7 Guards w/o Turner

[Labinot41]

Harkless was allways and still is our real X-Factor, if he plays like in the 2nd half of last Season, this is a different Team. If he plays like in the 1st half of last Season, this is a mediocre boring team

 

[Orion Bailey]

I'm just going to leave this here and duck.

Hahaha lawwwdy.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I just figured it out I think. You see his basketball knowledge is so superior to ours that his posts just seem stupid to us because we can't even comprehend the knowledge within them.

1 Currynthians 1:25--"The foolishness of @Blazer4ever is wiser than the wisdom of ripcitytwo."

 

[Hoopguru]

That’s the problem. He’s a 6’3 SG in a league where 2-4 are expected to be bigger than that and switch a lot. I’m not even trying to say they can’t win with him at the 2, I’m just saying I understand that part of arguement. It creates a challenge for them. They actually over came that last year for the most part.

I actually think CJ as full time PG on a team somewhere might be an interesting experiment. See if he can learn how to get his team mates involved. The post wasn’t really about CJ though (at least not the main point). It’s just there’s been a lot of homogenization of the 2-4 positions in basketball, guys may naturally be more inclined for a certain position but they will find themselves having to play multiple roles that go outside of what has been the traditional “2, 3, or 4”.

Going back it was the norm for 2's to be bigger, usually 6'4- 6'7 and many coaches wanted bigger guards for the very reason you point out.
IT & Dumars I think were one of the smaller guard tandem to win it all.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Going back it was the norm for 2's to be bigger, usually 6'4- 6'7 and many coaches wanted bigger guards for the very reason you point out.
IT & Dumars I think were one of the smaller guard tandem to win it all.

They were I actually went back once in a similar discussion on O-Live and normally 2’s are 6’4-6’6ish.

 

[James lamphear]

Harkless has guarded 4 position. I seen him guard Mitchell from the end of the season last year and gave Mitchell a lot of trouble.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Baldwin PG and Lillard SG would be a great backcourt Line-Up imo

Yep, Baldwin, because of his wingspan and standing reach is a much better 3rd guard to pair with Dame and C.J. than Shabazz was. When Bazz came in for Dame or C.J., our backcourt went from undersized by NBA standards to undersized by high school standards. Same as it did when we had Tim Frazier/Brian Roberts.

Now, both Dame and C.J. can play off the ball when paired with Baldwin and he can also guard the opponents best guard at the other end. And, he's long enough that a 3-guard lineup featuring all three won't be grotesquely undersized when other teams elect to go small.

Yeah, I know everyone is saying POR didn't do anything in the off season, but I think people are sleeping on how much of an improvement Baldwin and Curry will be over Shabazz and Pat.

The only time Dame has been paired with a decent size back-up PG was Eric Maynor for 27 games during Dame's rookie year. That allowed Dame to play off the ball and his shooting percentages shot way up:

Pre All Star:
FG% = .418
3FG% = 350
TS% = .535

Post All Star:
FG% = .449
3FG% = 401
TS% = .566

Keep in mind two things:

1) That was Dame's rookie year and he has improved every year he's been in the league.
2) Maynor wasn't nearly the defender Baldwin is.

Yeah, it would have been cool to land a stud starting SF, but we didn't. The good news is, we should see much less drop off when either Dame or C.J. goes to the bench. That has been this team's Achilles's heel (sorry Wes) for as long as Dame and C.J. have been starters. I just hated seeing the C.J. + four guys who can't score 2nd unit blow lead after lead. That should be much less of an issue with Curry and Baldwin in the mix (and possibly Trent Jr., as well).

BNM