Comments on: Baron: Best PG in NBA?

By: Livescores

Livescores — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:11:32 +0000

Nice to know... Sport news

By: JustPuked

JustPuked — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:22:34 +0000

D-wade lists Baron as one of his favorite 5 all stars. And no, that’s not a commercial. Baron is definitely in the top 4 in the league. Nash and Kidd have been at the table a long, long time and you got to include Billups. Of that group, only Nash is a sub-par defender. Williams & Paul are up and coming and play defense. Parker and Iverson get a mention, but they’re not holding too many guys down on defense. Who am I forgetting?

By: EJ

EJ — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:03:57 +0000

i agree with you two. the way officiating was going i don’t think baron would’ve gotten the call anyway. that’s a shot that jack needs to make. it’s the same shot buike made in philly on the ROAD.

regarding monta, one of my knocks on him as a point is that he only plays at one speed. he constantly kept trying to speed dribble around iverson on sunday and got nowhere. granted, iverson is a great defender, but i don’t see monta slowing down a bit or using a hesitation move. everything is already predetermined and there’s hardly any improve to his moves. when his jumper isn’t falling the only way he gets his buckets is off leak outs and transition. he’s got only one move in a one-on-one situation: jab step, jab step, hard dribble right, pull up jumper.

marcus, i read your column on possible point guards for the warriors. you shot my smush request down, so how about this one. delonte west. wouldn’t he be a perfect fit in nellie’s system? he’s make just under 2mil this year and is i think a free agent after.

By: KevinB

KevinB — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:48:34 +0000

I got to thinking the other day back to the Run TMC days and Tim Hardaway. If both he and Baron were in their prime, who would you choose as your point guard?

By: commish

commish — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:01:30 +0000

Right you are. Baron did all he could do but the other Capt let us down by not making the final shot; and in fact having a crummy shooting night percentage-wise. Only question is can he continue to play about 40 minutes a game and keep himself together for the next four months? Man do we need a decent backup point guard, which leads me to ask you, Marcus, is the Monta at PG experiment officially dead?

By: zgreat

zgreat — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:05:48 +0000

Baron may not be the best PG in the NBA but to use that last play as an example isn’t fair to him. If Steven Jackson hits that shot, no one would complain.
Maybe kicking the ball out for a trey was the play Nellie wanted to run and Baron followed the coach’s instructions. If Baron takes it all the way to the hole and misses, then some would argue that he choked in the clutch.

A fair critique would be something like Baron takes too many threes.