4ME, you've shown a knowledge of the game, no need to get into some sort of pissing match with Rusty. Rusty has demonstrated more than adequate basketball knowledge over time. I trust his posts about the game as much as anyone on this message board or otherwise.
Both of you are really not that far off of a similar point, though there is a clear philosophy difference. Rusty has long been an proponent that the idea of a "true PG" is way over used, and that is playing into his rationale. Your point that most great teams have a designated PG is true as well though. I think the point Rusty is making though is that there is a difference between "fast break" and "transition". The idea of most fans seems to be "fast break", which is some ambiguous form of basketball where you have a real fast PG and the idea is to get the ball to him on the outlet and he dribbles through tons of traffic for some highlight film dish and dunk. Reality is that doesn't work b/c its too easy to take away, thus the more organized approach of a transition offense which Roy Williams perfected. Yes, there is a primary PG and the ball is going to go through his hands a majority of the time, BUT most good transition teams get the ball up the floor through an organized passing game using lanes on the floor. Not some really fast guy that can dribble really well and create every time. Granted, when you have those guys it makes things a lot easier, which Roy proved by having pretty good PGs most of the time.
Yes, we probably don't have the personnel to run like a Roy Williams coached team, but we have more parts to at least push the tempo than we have in a long time. We will push the ball more, at least that is the plan from what I understand, though who and how we plan to do that I'm not sure. I think we should push tempo some if we can handle; the more touches for Beasley and Walker on the offensive end the better. Clearly from what we know Stewart is not the type of PG that is going to thrive in that, but I think he has the ability to lead some tempo more than he has and more importantly has people around him to allow it with some success. Perhaps it will help Young as well, and I have no doubt he'll be a much better player simply b/c he is not coming in injured and will have a year under his belt. Outside of Frank Richards, most of our JUCO guards have been much better players as SRs than as SOs. I've heard this staff is confident that we can push the ball more based on how the guys are doing this summer, I'm anxious to see if this is indeed true.
