I live in New York and don't get to watch many Wolves games (hopefully this year though I'll be able to afford the Package and watch them all season long), but I have a question that may seem silly to you but has always been rattling away in my mind.

How often do you think the Wolves'll put Foye and Bassy on the floor together? It seems to me like Foye's a much better scorer than he is a distributor, and we're limiting his potential growth as a bigtime scorer by forcing him to handle playmaking duties as well. Foye showed some serious potential when he came back last spring, I'll give him that, so maybe he's a good learner and will kick it up another notch this year. But this question could be stretched to a number of other teams, what's with this trend of teams in the NBA trying to convert natural SG's to PG's when they reach the pros?

The Wolves don't have another PG besides Bassy, I know, and he's best as a backup, and the team currently built practically forces Foye to run the point, but what (if any) is the beef with seeing how Foye would fair if he had to play off the ball a bit more?

I wouldn't mind seeing Bassy as the starter. We don't need a scoring PG with Big Al, Mike Miller, Rashad McCants, Randy Foye and (hopefully) Kevin Love being potent scorers.

I like Foye. Injuries slowed him down and I still believe he can be an elite scorer in this league. He was called a "poor man's Wade" when he came into the league. And if we consider him a poor man's option of vintage D-Wade then... GIVE ME.

He's a SG who was forced to play PG and forced to say he considers himself as such. I hope that after this season one of the Foye/McCants duo gets dealt and we'll have a team of Telfair/Foye/Miller/Love/Jefferson + whatever we can get with (or for) our draft picks.

I bet we'll see some time with both Bassy and Foye on the floor together. However, it probably won't be much as they're each other's main backups and you have to keep one fresh for substitutions.

DeROK wrote:
I bet we'll see some time with both Bassy and Foye on the floor together. However, it probably won't be much as they're each other's main backups and you have to keep one fresh for substitutions.

Agreed. Unless they sign another PG the wolves will be a team with 2 guys who can play the point (Bassy, Foye) and 5 guys who can play SG (Miller, Brewer, Carney, McCants, Foye). Minutes will be tight at SG and wolves will be in big trouble if Bassy or Foye go down.

Foye gets shat on by opposing SGs even worse than when he's guarding a PG.

PER

@PG
Foye 15.1
Opponent 17.8

@SG
Foye 11.5
Opponent 19.3

That's sad. He doesn't have a position, let's face it he's a shoint. I think we should trade him.

This topic was a grape fruit thrown right down the pipe to Mad Dog and he hasn't weighed in.

Mad Dog... in your heart you love all things shoint and I think deep down you know it yourself.

Ive actually never been a fan of foye or mccants both for separate reasons... Foye has never impressed me n it still angers me that we traded roye a stud for foye the dud...


but if a decent shoint came along i could root for him... I still say we should trade both shoints for a decent Center or hell even some new hot barely legal cheerleaders who wear daisy dukes..

"No one wants to set the table anymore. Everyone wants to eat." via NYTimes.com via Truehoop via:
emuss.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-have-al...int-guards-gone.html (Eric Musselman blog)

Coaches, N.B.A. scouts and talent evaluators say there are a variety of reasons why the pass-first point guard seems to have gone missing. But the primary reason they point to is that a generation of players weaned on Allen Iverson crossovers does not value passing as an art. Said Sonics assistant GM Troy Weaver: "I think Allen Iverson messed up the game. All these little guys dribble around instead of passing the ball." Coaches agree that playing the PG position requires not only a particular skill-set, but a certain mindset. Said Texas coach Rick Barnes, who's coached point guards T.J. Ford, Daniel Gibson, and D.J. Augustin: "They see things a little bit differently. The ones that I've been around have been very, very unselfish."
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33...Friday-Bullets.html

Lately, Guards Are Just Unable to Get the Point NYTimes.com March 2007
The N.B.A. draft last year showed signs of the lack of floor leaders; only one point guard, Villanova's Randy Foye, was selected among the first 20 picks.
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/sports/ncaaba..._r=1&oref=slogin