Stuckey:
“Honors: Named Honorable Mention All-America by The Associated Press and earned All-Big Sky Conference honors in both 2005-06 and 2006-07…Named Big Sky Conference Most Valuable Player as a freshman in 2005-06.”

Must suck a little. I don’t think I could blame AI, and Wallace I think should be in the 4 spot. At this point AI is the point man with shooters, Rip and Sheed, and some muscle Jason and Aaron…sucks because I’m a big Prince fan, but he seems like a team player, could be a big sixth man.

I can’t say that’s all he wants to but THAT PARTICULAR statement had an embedded assumption in it. As a SCORING guard, he’s SUPPOSED to SCORE! He’s not ONLY supposed to score, but he’s supposed to, nonetheless. 50% of the Offense covered – CHECK

He’s not the point. He’s like a “half-point” or a “combo” or “another point but not really”…MY POINT is he’s not the FLOOR GENERAL…just a Lietenant General or Vice-Point or sumptin…only because Stuckey’s still developing. The other 50% – CHECK

What I was saying about the 08-09 AI is…his DEFENSE aint as bad as some making it seem. He’s top 10 in Minutes and Picks. I know, I know, I heard the arguments…he’s not real good at d, he’s risky which leaves his other teammates compromised sometimes, giving up lanes and good looks. SHOVE IT. He aint SUPER RISKY. He’s not that much of a LIABILITY anymore. If he was he wouldn’t be on the floor for 38 minutes…while serviceable guards sit on the bench.

Rasheed not wanting to chase his man outside is a liability. Rasheed not wanting to chase his man outside because Amir is the only one backing him up is Curry’s liability . Rasheed not wanting to chase his man outside because Kwame is the only one backing him up is Dumas’ liability. Having 4 perimeter guys out there at the same time, at times, is a liability. OVERALL LAZINESS is a liability. LACK OF WILL AND HEART is a liability. AI CAN BE a liability too. I’m just sayin’ he’s not all the time. It’s everybody contributing to the problem.

STOP USING AI AS A SCAPEGOAT…that’s the moral of my story.

I see alot of similarities between AI & Bron. Both are expected to score a lot and both have played with pretty crappy teammates at one point or another. Difference is, when AI got better teamates (Denver & Detroit) he was still the selfish gunner that couldn’t help his teammates and help his team win. Bron did and still does ok to get his teammates involved (expect maybe in the crunch) and he plays to their strengths.

And believe me, I ain’t no Bron-homer, just using him as an example.

Now do I think AI is Detroit’s problem? Not entirely, but he’s as much at fault as the other 11 guys on his team.

And lastly, your points contradict each other. So AI ain’t a gunner anymore but he’s a 2-guard so he’s only supposed to score points? Offense is only 1/2 of the game and scoring is only 1/2 of running an offense, but he’s not being selfish when he only plays 25% of the game and all he does is look to score, cause he’s a 2-guard?

However…

That 8th spot in the West is NOT gonna be a cakewalk.

And the Lakers BETTER know that.

Lakers, if you’re out there listening, the 8th spot will be thinking UPSET every game.

And until then, you better play every potential 8th spot like a trap-game. And how do you avoid a trap-game??

Bring your A-GAME.

I feel you on the Dallas dropoff tho. Couple months ago, heads were sayin the east is stronger than the west, but now we got Phoenix and dallas one game apart fightin for the last playoff spot. That’s depth