Our starting pg should be soph Shabazz Napier who played significant minutes last season allowing Kemba Walker to slide to the 2. Shabazz rarely started but was in the game at crunch time. He will be backed up by Ryan Boatright a freshman who is supposedly as fast as Shabazz and Kemba. Jeremey is the only 2g so people are wondering who besides Boatright could back up Lamb. The debate was between Giffeye and Daniels. We'll see but it looks like Giffeye.
Shabazz...duh. Knew that. Yea I wouldn't expect to see Daniels at 2 much, but he can certainly shoot the ball
I can see Daniels playing the SG in situational moments like Calhoun suggested over the summer but I have a hard time seeing him getting more time there than Giffey will. We've already seen Giffey defend SGs at the college level and do a good job(Austin Freeman in the BE tourney, great job of denying the white kid from Butler open looks in the 2nd half after he was the only one who was knocking shots down for them), its too early to say what DD will look like defensively but at his size it will probably be a detriment for him to have to guard 6'3" combos/natural SGs. Plus, while his handle does look very good in those video clips, there's a big difference between doing that in AAU games and having to put the ball on the floor and drive against small, college SGs that are getting low and into your dribble. Rudy used to find this out often during his time here because at his size he was taller/longer than most college SFs as well(the same goes for Stan, Roscoe, and now DD).
Why should he know who are returning players are? It's not like we're defending national champions or anything.
A freshman no one has ever seen play has been favorably compared to two lottery picks in this thread. Stellar.
You are such a putz. People are asking who is game is like and what position he can possibly play. Nobody said he's as good as or will be as good as either Rudy or Donyell. Several have said 'if he is, that would be great' and well, it would be. And for the record, he comes in rated as good or better than those players so suggesting his ceiling is lottery pick level is not unwarranted.
I hope that he can play strong enough to be effective. He is likely to have to deal with coming off the bench for at least a while if not for the season.
Lets go big with him as the 2 and play spread and have him post whoever is guarding him on the blocks!!
I never understood why people have such a tough time with comparisons. You are rarely ever comparing how good the players are. You are comparing relative skill set, physicality (body/athletic ability) and some times impact on games. And it's not like it's a hard thing to discern in the discussion either.Usually its just someone being intentionally grouchy. Shouldn't have changed his name from WaylonSmithers, perhaps?
