Actually, while he didn't play for us, Gee shot the ball quite well from long range for the Wiz last year. It's probably why the Spurs stole him right out from under their noses.
It is interesting that we haven't signed a backup SF at this time.
Maybe, Gee will in fact make the Roster.
He's bigger than Anderson (by about an inch) and seems to be willing to take punishment while driving to the lane. His ball handling skills are pretty raw though, but on the other hand, Finley never developed any ball handling skills either.
Gee was a PF at Alabama, so he should be able to help D up the big wings that tear us up with their post up games. As a backup SF, he wouldn't be expected to do much other than spotting up, or running the floor on offense.
Didn't know he was d-league rookie of the year. here's some nice clips:
seems to handle the ball better than I thought.
No, there can be two playing simultaneously, but technically, only one person can be playing a position at each time.
I'll give you another example: The brief moments that the Cavs paired O'Neal with Ilgauskas last season, were they not still both centers just because they happened to be in the game at once?
Heh... I saw Don Nelson put three 7-footers on the court at the same time, along with a 6-7 SF. So which one of the 7-footers was the 2-guard? Those oddball rotations make a lot of the usual position labels meaningless.
When Ginobili and Hill are on the floor at the same time, it's hard not to call Hill the PG because he is shorter. And it's hard not to call Manu the PG, because he is generally running the offense. (It was also hard to call Roger Mason a PG, even when he was running the offense, because he was so inept doing it.) Last season, Hill played 2276 total minutes vs. 2150 for Manu, but Manu recorded 370 AST while Hill had just 226. Like it or not, Manu was the backup PG.
A good stat to look at is AST / 36 minutes. Parker usually averages around 6.5 - 7, which is a little light for a top-tier NBA PG. (Guys like Kidd, Nash, Rondo, Paul, etc. average 9+) Ginobili usually averages around 4.5-4.8, but last season he averaged 6.2. To me that says that he spent more time in a PG capacity than normal. By comparison, Hill averaged 3.6 AST/36 last year.
And Temple? Even though he played well last season, he averaged just 2.2 AST/36 minutes. Those aren't PG stats. They aren't even adequate backup PG stats. (In three seasons with the Spurs, Jacques Vaughn averaged 6.8, 5.0, and 6.2 AST/36 off the bench.)
To be successful, the Spurs need their backup PG to put up around 6 AST/36minutes. Last season, that player was Ginobili. If Hill or Temple can step up their game to that level, it will make a huge difference to the team. If they can't, those guys will be 2 guards, plain and simple, with Manu being the backup PG again.
I think pop will try to use him as a backup SF mainly.
Majority of the Spurs plays revolve around the big 3, who make the majority of the assists.
Everyone else is a role player that either hits their 3's or drive it hard into the lane. They simply just don't have the experience to setup the play themselves.
Despite what we say about Parker being selfish, his stats however back up the fact that he makes a ton of assists.
I don't expect Temple to be making a lot of assists, however I expect him at least to bring the ball up and protected it while he has it.
So now we're basing this off of who has more assists? Then I guess Bryant, Wade, Roy, Johnson, etc. are all point guards on their respective teams.
Ginobili did spend more time as a point guard than normal, but that was because when Parker got injured Mason was playing so awful that Pop was forced to use Ginobili as the backup point guard.
The positional designation is mostly irrelevant though. My original point was Parker, Ginobili and Hill can and most likely will be used as a three guard rotation against quality opposition and once the playoff rotation is set.
I expect him to be better than Jacques V.
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