Hate. I thought the people here would be killing him right now, but the hate has been pretty reserved. Rudy has so much more in his game than just being a shooter. I wish he'd realize it and handle the ball some more. Rather than Roy running the offense in that second unit, I'd rather have Rudy doing it, with Roy running off the ball.
Interesting idea.
I think Roy as backup PG has been a disaster. For some reason, even in that role, he is just a ball-stopping chucker, who (worse) is easily picked-off as the ball-handler.
He can't create off the dribble really well anymore. And lacking the ability to cut hard and stop hard and jump to pass, he is just a turnover machine waiting to happen. Which leads to him smartly deciding to cut the turnovers way down.....by just shooting the ball himself. Which destroys the offense.
Roy needs to move to backup Shooting Guard.
However, I think it may be too late to try a change in the rotation yet again and make it work in time for the playoffs.
I think Nate may have made a critical error in thinking a gimpy SG could be an ok backup PG. It is real different when you have a gimpy old PG and try to make them a backup PG. PG's run plays, run pick-and-roll plays, and use screens, all things that still work (just not as well) when the player is slow.
SG's like Roy, break down their defender, can create their own shot, get into the paint and the collapsing defense allows them to get assists. All things that work poorly when the player is slow.
I don't know what the solution is right now, but damn, the failure of Cho to get this team a quality backup point guard has been a problem unsolved his entire tenure that I fear is biting us in the ass hard.
