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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 3328556, member: 581"]
Is this supposed to ruffle feathers?  You'd be insane NOT to want that - an improved Goodine playing over Buddy, sign me up!

Scoring points does not make up for every other deficiency Buddy brings to the table.

He does not dribble well.  He's kinda sorta really slow.  He doesn't rebound (and lots of our guards haven't...but they could, and they could get to loose balls).  He can't create off the bounce.  He does not turn the other team over.  He struggles mightily with decent pressure defense.

He can back a guy down, and shoot a fade-away like a PF.  He can recognize mismatches (like if McMahon is guarding him) and get to the rim.  And, he can shoot threes at a respectable clip.

Not exactly the ideal shooting guard - especially when the kid is painfully inept defensively.

We don't have a "true" PG, we're losing Hughes, and we have a shooting guard that does very few things well.  Shooting guards with a diverse skill set are important in basketball.....a bit less so when you have a SF like Eli, a bit moreso when Hughes is gone (if we don't have an equivalent replacement).  Unless you think Girard is going to morph into Jonny Flynn...

You'd have to literally be insane to say that's not what you truly want.  Unless you truly think Buddy is going to somehow become athletic.  Which is sorta like someone thinking Bryant 'Big Country' Reeves was just some good conditioning drills away from being a Shaq type athlete.  Kid is slow afoot and not a very fluid athlete.  No cure for that.

If there was a cure, Ryan McMahon, with that work ethic, would be running circles around kids after four years...yet he still ain't doing that.
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