Uconn a preview of NBA's future? Multiple PG lineups?

[JohnMax]

Clippers (paul, collison) and Suns (bledsoe, dragic) run a 2 PG lineup.
OKC (westbrook, jackson, fisher) runs 3 PG lineup.

[Jameerthefear]

positions don't really matter. most aren't really point guards.

[oarabbus]

Clippers (paul, collison) and Suns (bledsoe, dragic) run a 2 PG lineup.
OKC (westbrook, jackson, fisher) runs 3 PG lineup with Fisher, Jackson and Westbrook


I think the smallball trend will last definitely for a few more years, and multi-PG lineups are the next natural evolution. Small teams face a challenge but if all the PGs can shoot, they can be devastating.

[yungtyrekeevans]

thug lyf

[LAZERUSS]

Years ago Pat Riley envisioned an entire five man team of "Magics" on the floor at the same time...

alas, he was the first, the last, and the only...

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Lawson and Felton. Lawson and Miller.

In college it matters much less because you don't face Kobe or PG every night. There are far fewer "NBA SGs" in college, and most of them are playing the w/f.

It could work in the NBA, tho, if you have two supremely talented basketball players. Ideally the SG would need to be good at defense. Same could be said for other positions.

[hawksdogsbraves]

College teams have been running 3 guard lineups for years. It's nothing new. Small-ball has obviously been effective lately, see the Heat, but running multiple small guards at once isn't going to be as effective in the NBA as it can be in college. Namely because (nearly) everyone in the NBA is actually good, and can take advantage of a big size disparity. If both your guards are 6'2, somebody's getting posted up every possession.

[aj1987]

Miami employs a Rio-Cole lineup as well.

[J Shuttlesworth]

Miami employs a Rio-Cole lineup as well.
LeBron is basically playing PG half the time too

[leMVP]

Lakers used (Blake, Nash) combo.

Houston playoff line-up will be (Beverlay, Lin).

Warriors last year used (Jack-Curry).

Small ball is the standard now for every successful team.

[secund2nun]

Miami employs a Rio-Cole lineup as well.

I hate that lineup.

[tomtucker]

Fukk ucunt and anyone named shabazz

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LMFAO

[Milbuck]

7 foot positionless players like Giannis are the future. I wouldn't be surprised if in 50-60 years, every NBA player is 6'11"+ with a 7'3"+ wingspan, with the athleticism, physique, and mental profile (court vision, instincts, etc) to play all 5 positions at an elite level - like Giannis in a few years.

[Myth]

Blazers ran a decent amount of Lillard/Mo.

[russwest0]

david kahn was ahead of his time

[tgan3]

Imagine Iverson and CP3, if this two ever played in the same team same era..

[tgan3]

7 foot positionless players like Giannis are the future. I wouldn't be surprised if in 50-60 years, every NBA player is 6'11"+ with a 7'3"+ wingspan, with the athleticism, physique, and mental profile (court vision, instincts, etc) to play all 5 positions at an elite level - like Giannis in a few years.

lol wtf?? :biggums:

that's impossible. It's not possible to have so many 6'11 guys who are skilled in every facet of the game. Just being 6'11 is rare, being 6'11 and skilled is ultra rare.

[tgan3]

You forgot last year's ncaa champs louisville, they have a 2 small guard lineup in peyton and russ smith both barely 6'0...:lol

[russwest0]

lol wtf?? :biggums:

that's impossible. It's not possible to have so many 6'11 guys who are skilled in every facet of the game. Just being 6'11 is rare, being 6'11 and skilled is ultra rare.

:roll:

[russwest0]

Poor guy was ahead of his time

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/David%20Kahn.jpg

[Milbuck]

lol wtf?? :biggums:

that's impossible. It's not possible to have so many 6'11 guys who are skilled in every facet of the game. Just being 6'11 is rare, being 6'11 and skilled is ultra rare.
I'm sure that's what they said about Wilt Chamberlain in the 50s-60s, that it was impossible to have so many guys like him. Yet today we have Wilts washing windows and flipping burgers everywhere.
lol

[KyrieTheFuture]

Small ball will stop being effective as soon as another player over 6'9 becomes good at scoring. We haven't had that for several years now.

[ZoPunde]

7 foot positionless players like Giannis are the future. I wouldn't be surprised if in 50-60 years, every NBA player is 6'11"+ with a 7'3"+ wingspan, with the athleticism, physique, and mental profile (court vision, instincts, etc) to play all 5 positions at an elite level - like Giannis in a few years.

bro you only been at this forum for three months but already have over 4000 plus posts

:biggums:

[tgan3]

Small ball will stop being effective as soon as another player over 6'9 becomes good at scoring. We haven't had that for several years now.


Kevin Durant?

[shallehalle]

david kahn was ahead of his time
:oldlol:

[DuMa]

it says more about the lack of depth at SG these days... Wade out for every other game and Kobe out completely. Only Harden and maybe DeRozan are players you have to gameplan for your 2 guards. otherwise just run 2 PGs every game.

[oarabbus]

lol wtf?? :biggums:

that's impossible. It's not possible to have so many 6'11 guys who are skilled in every facet of the game. Just being 6'11 is rare, being 6'11 and skilled is ultra rare.


Not really, I see hundreds of people like that every day

dude get your sarcasm meter fixed ASAP

[Uncle Drew]

Hopefully not. We need legit, back-to-basket bigs.

[mr.big35]

because there aren't many 7 footers left and college has more teams.

[ralph_i_el]

Hopefully not. We need legit, back-to-basket bigs.

rules turned that playystyle extinct

[Rocketswin2013]

I'm sure that's what they said about Wilt Chamberlain in the 50s-60s, that it was impossible to have so many guys like him. Yet today we have Wilts washing windows and flipping burgers everywhere.
lol
There are no 7'1 285 manbeasts with the ability to reach of over the square of the backboard "washing Windows". In fact there are none even in the NBA.

[russwest0]

I'm sure that's what they said about Wilt Chamberlain in the 50s-60s, that it was impossible to have so many guys like him. Yet today we have Wilts washing windows and flipping burgers everywhere.

Wilt probably wouldn't even make a D1 College team today, but damn, imagine him washing windows :eek:

Dat 7'8 wingspan would make him like, the GOAT of washing windows in todays era. He wouldn't need a stepladder or nothing.

[chips93]

positions don't really matter. most aren't really point guards.

well if positions dont matter, then we'll just call it having two ball dominant guards playing together, and its the same premise.

[chips93]

7 foot positionless players like Giannis are the future. I wouldn't be surprised if in 50-60 years, every NBA player is 6'11"+ with a 7'3"+ wingspan, with the athleticism, physique, and mental profile (court vision, instincts, etc) to play all 5 positions at an elite level - like Giannis in a few years.

it seems like evolution slowing down makes this very unlikely

[Real Men Wear Green]

There's nothing new about 2 pg line-ups. If your two best guards are small your team will do it often. That was the case in the past, is true now, and will be in the future. But UConn has not blazed some new trail for the NBA to follow, if you have a T-Mac you aren't benching him.

[Genaro]

Mavs used to run Kidd and Barea in 2011 or Terry who has PG size, so did the Knicks last year with Kidd and Felton.

Is it the future? I don't know, if NBA don't get better SG's it might be. Right now you got SGs who are defensive stoppers and shooters (so they better be 6'6" or something) while the SF is the all arounder. So it may be the future of the position too.