Blazers: Gunning For the Wrong Guy?

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Almost Draft Day Trade Talk
Published 6/26/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Everyone agrees that the perfect point guard to play alongside Brandon Roy is a great spot-up shooter and defender. Roy can run the offense, but you don't want the point guard's defender leaving his man to crowd Roy, nor Roy getting exhausted or in foul trouble trying to stop top guards like Baron Davis or Tony Parker. (In fact, read the impassioned case that Mario Chalmers was, essentially, born to play alongside Brandon Roy.) ...

Eye on the wrong prize?
Published 6/26/2008 by Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com at Blazers Blog - OregonLive.com
... , says the Blazers are looking at the wrong point guard all together. His checklist for a backcourt mate for Brandon Roy is as follows: 1. Young and cheap (in other words, a rookie fits the bill perfectly) 2. Fantastic defensively (so that Roy never has to even think about guarding Chris Paul) 3. A good spot-up shooter with range 4. Strong character 5. Fast To me, Augustin's letter grades for each checklist item look like this: 1. A 2. C- 3. B+ 4. A (as far as I know) 5. B Instead, Section F looks to another Big 12 PG, Mario Chalmers: Chalmers strikes me as not only the ...