CP3 to the Lakers...

[JudeBaldo]

I think you mean amnestied.

Also, how is CP3 a natural shooting guard?

[B-Fly]

Also, how is CP3 a natural shooting guard?

LOL. Yeah, I was scratching my head at that one, too. He's one of the best pure PGs in NBA history.

[onejayhawk]

I am totallly serious, though I perhaps phrased it badly. CP3 is as good playing off the ball as with it.

J

[B-Fly]

I am totallly serious, though I perhaps phrased it badly. CP3 is as good playing off the ball as with it.

J

Yeah, calling CP3 a natural SG who has had to play the point is, indeed, phrasing it badly. Perhaps one might say that CP3 is an all-world PG who also happens to be so good playing off the ball that he could probably be an all-world SG, too.

[onejayhawk]

Yeah, calling CP3 a natural SG who has had to play the point is, indeed, phrasing it badly. Perhaps one might say that CP3 is an all-world PG who also happens to be so good playing off the ball that he could probably be an all-world SG, too.

Exactly. He has great hands to receive the pass, instinct for the soft spot of the defense, quick release, etc.

Billups, who is he other half of this is better as a SG.

J

[B-Fly]

Exactly. He has great hands to receive the pass, instinct for the soft spot of the defense, quick release, etc.

Billups, who is he other half of this is better as a SG.

J

Yes, Big Shot Chauncey in most of his best years had something like a 3:1 points-to-assists ratio and was his team's first or second scoring option. CP3 has hovered around a much more pure-PG-like 2:1 points-to-assists ratio and has generally played with a pass-first mentality.