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Message: [QUOTE="Ghost, post: 3283557, member: 581"] [B]You keep sayin you want your guards to have the requisite guard skills. Battle wasn‘t a great shooter, as a shooting guard. Now we have good shooters, but you’re complaining they don’t drive or pass well? Battle wasn’t a great passer either. By the way, who were we going to “develop” last year in the event someone got suspended? Jalen Carey? [/B] Define good shooter for me because you think Girard is a great shooter, and Battle outshot him as a Frosh and then tailed off. Are you concerned your talk of Girard may be premature? People's percentages ebb and flow - we've all seen that. Even Ryan McMahon!!! And he's just a three point shooter! I certainly don't think Tyus was a great shooter though. Nope. Why are you so dense that you think everything is an all or nothing proposition?????????? Shooting seems to be so integral to your debate that it's worthless arguing with you. Did you JUST start watching basketball this week? He was a fine shooter, but had a whole host of other skills at the SG position. I don't need anyone to be a great shooter, great passer, great defender, great everything - that kid is great, and probably playing at Duke or Kentucky. I do like guards that can do many things well, perhaps one thing great. Ugh. [B]Battle was not a very good 3 point shooter and we saw that the more he shot. [/B] You really think basketball is just one big shooting contest. That's cool. [B]McMahon is strictly a 3 point shooter. [/B] And? I'm happy for him. He has a niche skill! [B]Couple times a game. [/B] Okay, so you define finishing at the rim regularly as a couple times a game for Joe???? He averages 1.5 two point field goals a game...let's assume some are on breakouts, some jumpers, because we've all seen him pull up for mid-range jumpers....I'm going back to being uncertain if you watch the games, and I had just come around to the fact you were watching! [B]But I thought you liked to argue to entertain yourself? [/B] It's only entertaining if you make sense. Once you stop making sense it's not an argument any more...it's something far less entertaining. [B]They don’t add much, which is why they don’t play much. I get your schtick is to try hard to be funny, but it’s lame, really. [/B] If you think Goodine or HoWa look inept or not worth playing, I suppose the debate is over for you. HoWa comes in and more often than not we extend the lead. We regularly take big leads and falter late. I'm fine if you think they suck, truly. I just think they're capable of giving us more - especially when I don't think the starters are quite the dynamic, endlessly skilled superstars that you do. I just see wholes in their games, and I think the bench could provide minutes, and offer up different things. Apparently I vastly undervalue three point shooting as our success this year has proven over and over. You spelled shtick wrong. [/QUOTE]

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