Point Guard Dilemma

Over the course of BC's career as GM, he has always had great players at the point--Kidd, Marbury (w/ Suns), Kevin Johnson, and Steve Nash. And he has usually shaped roster(s) (even the current Raptors roster) that cater to the PG's strengths (not sayin' that he built around the PGs but the rosters complimented the PGs).

All of the PGs I've mentioned, were THE playmakers on the respective teams....they were essentially the second options, if not first.

If memory serves me correctly, I don't remember BC ever having a prominent wing scorer. He's always had guys his scorers as PFs (Charles Barkley, Amare Stoudemire, Shawn Marion as far his style of play..rebounds, putbacks, etc., Clifford Robinson, Antonio McDyess).

So his teams have had the PGs as the second options. Kevin Johnson, Stephon Marbury, Steve Nash each averaged close to 20 ppg and the former did it twice.

So how does all of this apply to our team? Well, we have one PG who is capable of scoring the basketball, and we another who prefers to pass rather than shoot, almost to a fault.

If we choose Calderon as the PG, will we need to acquire that 20 ppg. scorer? And quite oddly enough, BC has already said that this is one of the team's needs, possibly already giving away who is going to stay, and that being Jose Calderon.

But if we keep T.J. Ford, I believe we'll be looking at getting a bigman to help Bosh down low, and a wing player, although not necessarily a 20 ppg., second option scorer. Because Ford can score the basketball, and has the potential to do so.

To sum it up, we can look at all of BC's teams and see that the second scoring option was not a wing player, but rather a PG. I know you all are going to say Shawn Marion, well I think Marion scored a lot off of fastbreaks and putbacks. He was a 20 ppg. scorer, but not in the traditional sense. This time, a BC-led team may feature a SG as it's second option.