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<blockquote data-quote="gt24" data-source="post: 913273" data-attributes="member: 538"><p>this is some high quality stuff. thank you. love the lineup data.</p><p></p><p>regarding your skepticism on Smith... my take on Smith from last year: modern bball is FULL of AAU "combo guards". other than the rare exception, "combo guard" means not a 2 and not a 1 and too small to play anything else. does not shoot well enough to play on the wing and keep defenses honest (unless you have a 3 AND 4 who can drill 3s while the "combo guard" just plays downhill). does not run the show well enough to be a team PG. they are explosive, athletic, make incredible plays. they are "tantalizing" - but... they... are... not... PGs. regardless of the stat line, they are not PGs. they tease you (coaches, fans, etc) with athletic potential and incredible skills - but not shooting skills and not PG skills. "combo guard" is a red flag. some in the AAU world have caught on to this and, for recruiting purposes, now label every short fast athletic player a PG even if they have zero history of playing PG, nor the mindset of a PG.</p><p></p><p>they can dominate AAU. they can get very high recruiting ratings based on potential and the hope that they find a system to fit their athleticism and AAU skills. it works sometimes. and modern position-less basketball helps. its a matter of finding the right system and complementary parts/players. i hope Smith and Pastner find that. because when teams have a dude like him playing position-less (not the PG distributor, not the deadly shooting guard keeping defenses honest) it can be awesome. but like [USER=1466]@BeeRBee[/USER] i am skeptical and have been the whole time. i really hope i am wrong and absolutely could be because he is young and has so much room for learning the game. but old (AAU) habits are hard to break. i hope i am wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gt24, post: 913273, member: 538"] this is some high quality stuff. thank you. love the lineup data. regarding your skepticism on Smith... my take on Smith from last year: modern bball is FULL of AAU "combo guards". other than the rare exception, "combo guard" means not a 2 and not a 1 and too small to play anything else. does not shoot well enough to play on the wing and keep defenses honest (unless you have a 3 AND 4 who can drill 3s while the "combo guard" just plays downhill). does not run the show well enough to be a team PG. they are explosive, athletic, make incredible plays. they are "tantalizing" - but... they... are... not... PGs. regardless of the stat line, they are not PGs. they tease you (coaches, fans, etc) with athletic potential and incredible skills - but not shooting skills and not PG skills. "combo guard" is a red flag. some in the AAU world have caught on to this and, for recruiting purposes, now label every short fast athletic player a PG even if they have zero history of playing PG, nor the mindset of a PG. they can dominate AAU. they can get very high recruiting ratings based on potential and the hope that they find a system to fit their athleticism and AAU skills. it works sometimes. and modern position-less basketball helps. its a matter of finding the right system and complementary parts/players. i hope Smith and Pastner find that. because when teams have a dude like him playing position-less (not the PG distributor, not the deadly shooting guard keeping defenses honest) it can be awesome. but like [USER=1466]@BeeRBee[/USER] i am skeptical and have been the whole time. i really hope i am wrong and absolutely could be because he is young and has so much room for learning the game. but old (AAU) habits are hard to break. i hope i am wrong. [/QUOTE]
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