Rumor The Knicks have Wes and Monroe at the top of their FA list

[H.C.]

I love Wes too, but I thinks he's probably expendable in the end. Solid SGs are not that hard to come by.

Outside of Harden/Thompson/Beal/Matthews.
Name 5 starting shooting guards that are solid this year.
Injuries play a role in taking Wade/Kobe off this list.

 

[blue9]

Outside of Harden/Thompson/Beal/Matthews.
Name 5 starting shooting guards that are solid this year.
Injuries play a role in taking Wade/Kobe off this list.

Weird cycles at play in the NBA. Remember when PGs and Cs were hard to come by? Now they're [nearly] as plentiful as PFs, which seems to always be the easiest position to fill - actually, I think PG is probably the deepest talent pool in the NBA right now. It seems like there's still a perception that you can get by without a good C, but in actuality there are more quality Cs in the league than there have been in a long time. The league use to be DOMINATED by SGs, and now you're lucky to get one that's merely adequate. It's why I view Wes as our second most valuable player, behind Dame. There's no way we let him walk this summer.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I changed the thread title so the subject matter will be easier to search for.

 

[riverman]

I don't see the trangle being Wes' game style at all and I don't see the Garden as a place he's going to feel at home in. One slump on that team and you're crucified by the media. Stott's player's style of offense is the perfect game for Wesley's talents. He likes the underdog tag and he feels he's on the best team now. I don't see Wes going anywhere for the primetime run of this Blazers squad.

 

[KingSpeed]

Outside of Harden/Thompson/Beal/Matthews.
Name 5 starting shooting guards that are solid this year.
Injuries play a role in taking Wade/Kobe off this list.

Monta Ellis. JJ Reddick. Danny Green. Kyle Korver. Jimmy Butler. If you consider Butler a SF, then go with JR. Smith. Or Andrew Wiggins who could also be considered a SF.

 

[Strenuus]

Monta Ellis. JJ Reddick. Danny Green. Kyle Korver. Jimmy Butler. If you consider Butler a SF, then go with JR. Smith. Or Andrew Wiggins who could also be considered a SF.

The fact that JR smith would be a replacement in that 5 means it's tiny. lol.

 

[H.C.]

Monta Ellis. JJ Reddick. Danny Green. Kyle Korver. Jimmy Butler. If you consider Butler a SF, then go with JR. Smith. Or Andrew Wiggins who could also be considered a SF.

Ellis is a solid offensive player.
However he's far from solid defensively. - so this one doesn't work.

Reddick is a solid 3 point shooter.
But outside of that he's not really solid in any other aspect of his game.
He's been covered up his entire career by elite shot blocking.(minus a year in Orlando when Howard was traded?)

Danny Green is solid but can't really know how well he'd do out of that system. Will give you this one though.

Kyle Korver is solid in shooting. Specifically catch and shoot situations.
His defense is better than Ellis/Reddick though. Guess that means something?

Jimmy Butler is a natural SF, who can play the two.
JR. Smith is far from solid.
Andrew Wiggins is shooting 43% from the field and 35% from three. I guess that's solid for todays shooting guard.....

Weird cycles at play in the NBA. Remember when PGs and Cs were hard to come by? Now they're [nearly] as plentiful as PFs, which seems to always be the easiest position to fill - actually, I think PG is probably the deepest talent pool in the NBA right now. It seems like there's still a perception that you can get by without a good C, but in actuality there are more quality Cs in the league than there have been in a long time. The league use to be DOMINATED by SGs, and now you're lucky to get one that's merely adequate. It's why I view Wes as our second most valuable player, behind Dame. There's no way we let him walk this summer.

It is kind of silly the differences in todays game compared to the 90's or early 00's.
Every team was after a PG and tried to hit. Would Carlos Arroyo have a chance at starting in todays game? I mean even Lin is better than him.... Crazy.
But the quality of 2guard was amazing...
I mean Jalen Rose was considered an average 2guard in the early 00's. If he was playing today? He'd be considered just under elite... or perhaps even elite.

Honestly if I were to try to say whos the most important Blazer in order... I'd have to say..
Aldridge/Lillard 1a/1b
Wes 2.
I can't really say who is more important between Lillard/Aldridge because the offense looks like shit without Aldridge. It has for the past 2 years whenever he's been out.
But the Blazers didn't really start winning with Aldridge until Lillard showed up... Teams couldn't just clog the middle.

So idk.. But I def think Wes is right behind Lillard/Aldridge in terms of importance.
Batum is underrated... even with as shitty as he's played.

 

[blue9]

I can't really say who is more important between Lillard/Aldridge because the offense looks like shit without Aldridge. It has for the past 2 years whenever he's been out.
But the Blazers didn't really start winning with Aldridge until Lillard showed up... Teams couldn't just clog the middle.

It's true that the offense has looked particularly bad when LMA is out. But if you figure that we were to replace him with another starting-level PF, rather than Robinson/Wright/Leonard, I think there'd be very little drop-off. Whereas if you were to replace Lillard with another starting-level PG the drop-off would be much more noticeable because we've relied so heavily on Lillard to win games in the 4th quarter. Therefore Lillard is, IMO, far and away the most important player on the team.