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I'm a born and bred Kiwi living in London. Massive Phoenix Suns fan first and foremost, but really if it's NBA, I'm into it. Realised a life-long dream by seeing the Suns in person with a bunch of mates, road tripping round the East Coast of the US in 2009, culminating in a week long stay in Phoenix. I'm also a massive sports fan in general, removing a huge monkey off my back when I got to see the All Blacks win the 2011 Rugby World Cup in person. Moved to London in April 2013, missing the Land of the Long White Cloud NZ...But still watching as much NBA, rugby and league as I can!
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The Suns at 4-2 could be on here. No legit star (yet, Bledsoe is getting very close) and a rookie coach, with their only two losses coming on the road – without Dragic – to the Spurs and Thunder.
4-2 leads the Pacific and they’re 3-0 at home despite starting Plumlee (55min ALL of last season) and Gerald Green…who is, let’s face it, Gerald Green.
Smaller NBA teams creeping under the radar in 2013/2014
I’m not sure if Avery Bradley has been ‘more than acceptable’ as a starting PG. There are few who shoot worse than him either from the floor as a whole, or from deep, and he’s arguably coughed it up more than he’s actually forced. Any PG who turns it over more than he assists, is not a good PG – that’s just not his game. That being said, you put him in the second unit as 6th man and he could be the perimeter defender they’ve lacked since Tony Allen packed his bags.
Green needs someone to set him up – he’s not a good dribbler and isn’t that creative unless he’s isolated against a bigger, slower PF, but I agree he has to step it up and be a 20pt scorer. Until Rondo’s back I agree with astro, it’s feast or famine depending how hot he gets and who he matches up with. He’d be perfect as a legit second option, cos when the D collapses on him he hasn’t got the skill-set to either make a play for teammates (who? haha) or take over the game himself.
Ainge is going to have his hands full trying to move pieces that are arguably on the worst contracts in the league – Wallace ‘crashed’ and burned last season and his body is completely shot. Courtney Lee was a very solid rotation player until he became an overpriced solid rotation player – guys like him are fine as a 7th/8th man off the bench, but not when you need 30-32 mins from him.
Bass is useful enough but would be traded as soon as anyone offered a 2nd rounder for him – he’d be ideal on a contender like the Spurs or Thunder who could use a vet wide body to bang and knock down open 15-18 footers.
Agree with Olynyk and Sully, those guys have some nice skills…but are they both starter quality? Not so sure…
Is Rondo going to play this year? And if he does, will he finish the season as a Celtic?
It's not all bad news in Boston
Really nice article mate but I gotta disagree on a couple of things – mainly Rondo being the ‘best two-way point guard’ – Paul has been All Defensive 1st team for 3 of the last 5 seasons and in the other 2 he was on the 2nd team. He’s a perennial leader among win shares and offensive rating and he’s a much better offensive player than Rondo. Before he improved his mid-range last season, teams basically left Rondo open from outside the lane, whereas Paul’s as likely to drop 30 one night as he is dish 15 assists – you can’t be the best two-way player at any position if the opposition can basically leave you open for half the game with no threat of you scoring.
Curry is also the best offensive point guard on the planet – his shooting numbers are absolutely mind-boggling for his career, and not only that his assists are up by nearly three per game. Lillard is going down the Gilbert Arenas route and scoring en masse (42.9 and 42% from the floor his first 2 season…not good, at all) – which is nice and good to watch, but you can’t confuse his ability to make clutch shots with being the total offensive package. Curry’s taken nearly six 3s a game for his career and he’s still 3rd ALL TIME in %, that’s madness – and he’d also be 3rd all time in ft% if he’d made enough. I get they’re very close in 3s, TS% and various other stats, but if you’re going to include career stats then Curry has him beat easily over the last 2 seasons…I do love Lillard’s game though and would have him at 6 as well!
Deron Williams for all his faults and injury concerns is still a top 10 PG – though I totally see why you left him out of there because of his attitude and health concerns. Again though, when he’s on a roll he can legitimately threaten Paul as the top PG – if only for 5-10 game stretches at a time now. It saddens me what he’s become – coach-killing and always injured, it was only two years ago he threw up a 57 point game and a 20 assist game in the same year – the talent is still there he just needs to be healthy and happy.
Rubio…yuck! Worst shooting player in modern NBA history – unless he’s throwing up 12 assists and 4 steals a night, he shouldn’t be in the discussion.
Nice article though, very good read!
cheers
Ranking the NBA's point guards