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[RYLIU]

>>one of the most function of a point guard?
Meant to say
>>one of the most important function of a point guard?

[AlphaBeta]

it's funny how no one seems to want to wait for a guy who's played less than Parsons in minutes to improve. He's either viewed as good or terrible - not "he's learning".....can't remember last player in this position.

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I would say that what Ming Wang wrote would be true IF the whole thing holds up overtime, the problem is that the sample size on Beverley is very limited and the one on Lin is very skewed , we don't have breakdown of Synergy or +/- in different months etc.. it's hard to evaluate (though I'm sure the Rockets FO have all that and then some.), though it is true that with Howard and Harden out there, whoever 's the PG is not going to get a lot of plays run through them. 

 

Of course, one should note that Lin did shoot around 40% from 3 in the last 2 months or so, if he does that, he's going to get plenty of play. 

 

I should generally note that players with Beverley's style doesn't seem to hold up well with expanded minutes, Tony Allen for example, while he starts, doesn't actually play that many minutes. 

 

At the end of the day, who's standing on the floor at tip off is largely irrelevant, you can pull guys quickly anyway, even if they do split Harden and Lin's time going forward (which I think they totally would.)  they'll still end up overlapping a good amount . so those minutes being the first 5 or somewhere in in the middle doesn't make any difference.

 

Some argument in Lin's favor is that you have to look at % of shots assisted, in which case Lin wins out pretty easily, this means that Lin was creating his own shots, while Beverley was on the receiving end of a lot of Harden / Lin play making, this of course could also say that Bev is a better off ball player which may play well with Harden.

 

I'd generally think that Beverley will play more with Harden than Lin does this year, which does not necessarily equate to Bev standing out there at tip off, those things are not really connected. because I doubt their time spread will change that much this year. with the exception that they'll probably scale back Harden's minutes a bit.