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Originally Posted by Dornado
My thoughts on Telfair, from the limited times I've seen him this year, is that even at his young age, he'd be a solid point guard if he just decided he would never shoot from outside of 18 feet.
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The problem is that a point guard who can't--and even if he can't, who won't--shoot when he's open from the outside is putting his team in a hole from the get-go, because his defender will sag to defend the drive and to double-team elsewhere. So even while he's a mediocre-to-bad outside shooter, he has to shoot. And if he doesn't dramatically improve that aspect of his game, it means he probably can't be a really legit starter.
The only long-term starting PGs I can think of who shot so poorly (off the top of my head, anyway) were Nate McMillan and Muggsy Bogues. And McMillan was such a defensive beast, he almost made up for it that way. Bogues could really push the tempo and got other guys really easy shots, which, while Bassy is improving, he doesn't do yet.