"need an impact player"

[Steve Ouellette]

But doesn't the fact that he couldn't beat out Jarrett Jack and Steve Blake on a crappy Portland team that is invested in him say something? I can't see him ever being a better basketball player than Delonte West -- though yes, he is a "pure" point guard for those obsessed with the designation -- so that would be a waste of resources to me.

Steve O


---- Mark Piotrowski <markp at pop3.coe.ufl.edu> wrote: 
> i guess that's the reason i'd take a risk on Telfair w/ the 7 should 
> we end up with it...  he's shown he can play in the NBA.  Will he be 
> better than Marcus Williams? or even Marcus Banks?  who knows...i 
> haven't broken down enough film but we do know that he's only 20, 
> still adapting to the speed of the game.
> 
> He did avg 10 ppg, 3 asst and a 2:1 A/TO ratio despite playing behind 
> 2 other guys on a bad POR team.
> 
> And the one thing he has is natural PG instincts -- something we 
> always complained Banks didn't have, and that is something you 
> genearlly can't teach.
>