Friday, July 4, 2008

Duhon is upgrade, but point is still Magic's weakness

Chris Duhon would be a nice backup to Jameer Nelson at point guard in Orlando, although Nelson would be a nice backup elsewhere. The way to beat the Magic right now, as the Pistons showed in the playoffs last year, was to capitalize on Nelson’s lack of height and poor defense. Any team that can find a way to post up Nelson will have a definite way to attack the Magic. But post-up point guards are rare. Billups happened to be one. Gary Payton was one. Sam Cassell could also post up. Duhon didn’t like that he didn’t have a role with the Bulls and blames his insubordinate behavior on that. We’ll see. He’s clearly the backup point guard now in Orlando and we’ll see if there was a reason the Bulls were willing to part ways with the former Blue Devil before they had even thought about drafting a point guard.

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