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You DONT build around PG

Scorpjazz

Scorpjazz

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Since Magic, never has the best, or top 2-3 PG won a ring. It is the least important position to have an elite player at. Better to have a decent PG and look for the star elsewhere.
Obviously the Jazz have neither at this point, but it blows me away that people are in their soup over losing DWill for all we got. He wasnt a leader, was a finger pointer. Unreal talent and for sure top 2-3 PG in league, no doubt.
The fact that the Nets are fools should make us happy and we scored huge with this trade.
You do NOT win rings by building around a PG. At least none that are in the league right now. MAYBE Rose will buck that trend, but DWill is not Rose.
 
Scorpjazz said:
Since Magic, never has the best, or top 2-3 PG won a ring. It is the least important position to have an elite player at. Better to have a decent PG and look for the star elsewhere. Obviously the Jazz have neither at this point...
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Could've stopped right there...pretty much sums it up.
 
Magic Spray said:
I agree with your point.

But Isiah Thomas was the best PG when he won 2 championships.

/ducks
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At that time he was one of the top 3, arguable the best. Magic was still a notch ahead and Stock was the best pure PG. But you could argue that Isaiah was the best PG for those years. Definitely top 3. Kinda does buck the trend.
 
LogGrad98 said:
At that time he was one of the top 3, arguable the best. Magic was still a notch ahead and Stock was the best pure PG. But you could argue that Isaiah was the best PG for those years. Definitely top 3. Kinda does buck the trend.
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People forgt that Isaiah Thomas + Joe Dumars was and probably is to this day one of the best backcourts ever assembled. Dumars was easily top 3 SG in the late 80s. Jordan himself stated that Dumars was the best defending SG hed ever faced. Add in a great PF with rodman, and the rest of the badboys, and theres your championships.
 
You know you could also argue that the Pistons of the 2000's best player was also a PG. It is hard to argue against Billups as one of if not the top PG in the league when they won it all. Their team didn't really have a superstar, and Billups filled that role more than the other players really. Again a backcourt with top 5 SG (Rip) and top 3 PG (Billups).

I guess maybe you can build a championship team around a solid PG. It sure doesn't appear to be easy. And you definitely need a 2nd star/top-level player in another position, but it can be done.

Really the test is if you can get 2 star-caliber players regardless of position.

Magic/Worthy/Kareem
Isaiah/Dumars
Jordan/Pippen
Olajuwon (this kind of bucks the trend for one year, the next he had Drexler)
Billups/Rip
Shaq/Kobe
Parker/Ginobli/Duncan
Wade/Shaq
Kobe/Gasol
KG/Pierce/Allen

Even that is no guarantee. Many teams with 2 stars have been knocked off. But without 2 stars you are a very very long shot to get there.
 
I don't think the Nets are trying to build a championship team around DWill. I think they wanted him due to his talent and to tempt another superstar to come over.
 
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