Personally, I think we should sign Chris Paul and Lebron James next off-season… And maybe we could trade for Dwight Howard to backup Aldridge, Oden, and Pryzbilla.

If anyone says that this is unrealistic, please create a new post because your negative response will “distract the other reader from making informative posts.”

Sergio FTW.

I think it is fairly well known that the Blazers are PG deficient. We are now past the trade deadline, so acquiring another PG is now out of the equation. Portland doesn’t have the cap space to go after an “Elite” point guard and I don’t think this team needs an “Elite” point guard to be an “Elite” team.

Why not write a fanpost on what you would like to see, in terms of growth, from our current three point guards going into the post season/off season in order for them to remain on our championship roster.

whatever we need, KP will provide at a lower cost than anyone can reasonably expect. – Elgin

I think he’s similar to Derek Fisher.

as “is this a championship team” and YES you do need a solid to elite point guard to win championship. I’ve been a Piston fan my whole life and it was Zeke for the first two and Chauncey for the third, last year RONDO was amazing, year before that you had Tony Parker, before that you had D Wade essentially playing point forward, 05 tony Parker, 04 Billups, 03 Parker…..starting to notice a pattern.

For the people that read the whole post Romon Sessions was recommended, he makes less than a million this year.

The difference between D Fish and Blake is huge starting with championships, do not count Maryland.

I think Bayless will be able to defend those guys or at least hound them for 36 minutes, and Roy is our 4th quarter point guard.

With guys like Derek Fisher and Rajon Rondo playing the point.

Can anyone even name Micheal Jordan’s point guards?

When you look at the racks of rings that Chris Paul, Jason Kidd and Steve Nash have put up it’s obvious that only an elite point guard can get it done.

Scotty Pippen was running the Point Forward for the runs, or Michael Jordan was just dribbling up the court and dominating. I’ll go through the 92 Finals tapes to start research.

were the perimeter guys waiting the the dibble penetration kick out and hit the three

we somehow could have gotten westbrook in the draft. with him and a solid SF it would be a done deal

There is a premium on the position. You find a top guy, you keep him. Everyone we can possible get has some downside, and even those guys don’t come cheap. Brief rundown of a few options:

• Hinrich: Realistic upgrade, but not “elite”. People don’t like his contract.
• Arenas: Difficult to match contracts, very expensive remaining salary, injury history.
• Sessions: Would be an upgrade at least over Sergio. No outside shot. Bucks want to keep him.
• Felton: Realistic, price okay, and would fit our window, but also not “elite”.
• Conley: Memphis decided on him over Lowry, so not cheap. Friends with Greg. But unclear if he can realize potential.
• Bibby: Aging. Expensive. Not much of a defender. Might want to stay with Hawks.
• Miller: Aging. Not much of an outside shot.
• Kidd: Old. Not really a good defender anymore. What can he command as his last salary?
• Nash: Old. Never has been a good defender.
• Davis: Aging. Expensive. KP/Penn are on record saying he wouldn’t work well with Roy.
• Crawford/Ellis: Not really point guards. Expensive. We can hope Bayless becomes that kind of player with more PG skills.
• Robinson: Undersized. Streaky. Not really a good defender either.
• Petteri: Not NBA ready, much less starter ready.
• Draft tier 1 Rubio: Not sure whether he will be in the 09 or 10 draft. No outside shot. Won’t come over immediately. Need luck to get the right draft pick even if KP would be able to move up a lot.
• Draft tier 2 Jennings/Curry: Hard to get/need luck. Jennings didn’t look very promising overseas, but likely would have looked better in college. Curry is also in that category, and there are questions if his skills translate to the pros.
• Draft 3 Collison: Realistic, but initially no more than a backup. I likely would put Flynn and Lawson in that category too.

Forget acquiring Harris, CP3, Williams, Rose, Rondo, Calderon, Parker, etc. unless Roy or at the very least LaMarcus is in the package – and even then some guys would be unattainable.

The realistic guys to acquire are probably Hinrich, Felton (RFA), Miller (UFA), maybe Sessions (RFA) and Bibby (UFA). If we acquire Hinrich, Bibby or Miller, there is no real place for Blake on the team. And debatable how much of an upgrade towards the “elite” category those would be.

basically a D league squad

For what 14 at the Rose Garden? SO he had 1 good good game against us and 1 bad one. NOOO

or in Europe, or in college, is going to become an upper-echelon point guard.

• If he’s a current NBA player with more than two years of experience, is an upgrade to anyone we have right now or next year, fits our culture, has a contract we can manage, and is gettable, KP will get him. Maybe Sessions is that guy, but I’m not betting on it.

• If he’s in Europe or college, he will come into the NBA as a rookie and will be snapped-up by a lottery team who isn’t likely to trade him for anyone we would be willing to part with. I doubt KP would want another rookie anyway, especially at point. The rookie would have to be a CP3-level talent to justify getting him.

I’m guessing that the point guards we have right now are the point guards we will go into battle with for the next few years.

His offense is a slightly improved version of Blake, would he bring more to the defensive side?

Before this year he was unattainable, but Toronto might be ready to blow up. A combination of our 10,000 picks Bayless/Sergio/Blake, and maybe even some other fodder would make him a possibility.

Plus, we could annex Spain as part of Oregon.

Need to spend all summer with shooting coaches.

I have watched Bayless shoot live from about 20 ft away for about 20 min. He is an excellent shooter. He is running into the same problem Rudy did in Spain a few years ago, that is, learning to “be slow, in a hurry.” Bayless’ natural shot is not super quick and NBA defenses are WAY faster than college, so your window is smaller. You have to either have a quick release, or have balls of steel and take your time while knowing that a very large man is flying toward you to block your shot.

Bayless will get it at NBA speed soon, it just takes reps. In games reps not practice reps. His shot is money, it’s all in his head.

It’s been or achilles heel all year, quick point guards give us trouble.
Not sure we’ve done to well against quick teams in general.

will be the man, just give him some time. that guy has potential coming out the who-ha.