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Message: [QUOTE="boog204, post: 2460051, member: 880"] Wasn't the "knock" on Jalen that he wasn't really a point guard? Didn't he get the dreaded "lead" guard label? I still had some fading optimism that a Gilbert-Adams backcourt could be lethal with Adams playing the Ben Gordon role as the full-time scorer, part-time facilitator. The other thing that I would be remiss in mentioning is that while Jalen may not have great floor vision, our absolutely piss-poor offensive structure affords him little opportunity to illustrate what vision he does have. I know I (and others) have beaten it to death, but the lack of spacing, player motion, effective screening, ball movement and everything else often leaves Jalen on an island to make a play. Often he does and other times he just tries to do too much because he HAS to. I hate knocking him on that when basically the reliance is completely on him. It's in some ways similar to what former 76ers stated about playing with AI and how he was not a ball hog or a chucker. AI was on a team with no offensive players so with 7 left on the clock the best move was to give the ball to Iverson and get out of the way. [/QUOTE]