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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2016161, member: 488"] Can we please stop acting like position labels matter? Point guards work off the ball all the time in all sorts of different offenses. Passing is also a skill that does not discriminate by position - one could actually argue that in certain offenses, point guard skills are marginalized (see the Triangle, not that anybody runs that anymore). Whether Adams is using a ball screen at the top of the key or flaring off a curl on the wing, I think we all understand that he's the most dynamic player on the roster and needs the ball in his hands. It's counterproductive at times to have your best play-maker conducting traffic at the top of the key because you turn him into a table-setter - you don't want your best player initiating the action that leads to the action, you want him touching the ball when those rifts have already opened up. If you can do that with a traditional high ball screen, great. A lot of our best teams have run other stuff as well and our roster next season - particularly if nobody emerges as a reliable post player - may actually be better suited to run the 1-4 stuff that we're seeing now, in which case Adams will move off the ball. [/QUOTE]