Have I mentioned I love Bayless!?

dont pre assume or assume pre..

But Bayless is improving his court vision a bit, which is good.

because Bayless is the man. If only the Milsap thing will go through. Two gym rats with great work ethic on the same team is never a bad thing. Hopefully they will rub off on everyone as well.

Defense looks ugly. As does his ability to mix passing & distribution. Same problems he had at Arizona. Ugh. Over hyped much?

It was practically a flawless performance offensively. That said, his defense is still quite questionable(although I give a pass on that with the lameo refs and the fact his sole concentration is on running the team). 2nd half was ugly. He is improved though, and thats what I was hoping for. All in all I give him a solid B. Still a bit skeptical about him as our 2nd string pg. Injuries happen, and he isn’t ready for big minutes….

…in Las Vegas could make a jumper, JBay’s 7/6 Asst/To ratio would’ve been more like 12/6. That being said, it’s hard to deny his talent for getting to the hole. If his wing players had been making shots, you would’ve seen more of a distributor out there. Let him develop, Chauncy wasn’t Mr. Big Shot over night

His defense was a little spotty though.

Bayless is picking his spots to attack and consistently passing to the open man. Obviously he is more comfortable when attacking than creating, but that will change with experience. Bayless consistently passed to an open big for a mid-range jumper or a wing on the perimeter, he then stops, and stares while that player makes his decision. He is only seeing the play that is happening, he needs to be able to see the NEXT play that will happen and get the ball in the right spot.

but I fear Bayless might be the next Marcus Banks. Same body type and same get in your face, but not very effective defense. The Suns tried desperately to turn Banks into a backup point guard but he is really just a shooting guard in a point guard’s body. He never really figured out the passing thing.

Show me the rookie / year 2 player that’s playing amazing NBA defense. And please don’t say Batum. Please.

just not about summer league, last year he was the MVP, but even if he dishes out 10 plus assists I’m not really going to get excited until it translates to regular season games, not trying to be a grumpy guss, i just got so excited about off/preseason stuff last year then we had bayless fighting for a spot with sergio, martell went down, oden went down. I feel it’s better not to get too amped up over one player, or too down if they don’t perform well in SL. Look at batum last year doing nothing in SL and then natural assuming a starting role on the team. You never know who will go down or be replaced, just saying.

I’m in the minority here, but I don’t care if his passing improves much this year. He is a scorer, pure and simple. Trying to make him into something he isn’t doesn’t maximize his skllset. The only issue keeping Bayless off the floor last year was his jumpshot, which still didn’t look too fabulous. Consistently sticking the open jumper is the only thing between him and his dreams, not some passing skill or court vision that he will eventually develop, if he can just get minutes.

Bayless is so over rated. What has he done? He’s not a point guard. He can get to the rim but that’s about all I’ve seen from him. He loves to turn the ball over. He can’t play defense. He can’t communicate. He has no court vision. He’s a tiny shooting guard. We need to trade him for his “potential” card before other teams figure out how underwhelming of a player he’ll actually end up being.

Hopefully we get Hinrich and he can remain the third string and we’ll get rid of him before the trade deadline.

There, I said it.