What number will John Wall be? Elvin is making things difficult for me. I have my T-Shirt ready to order, but I don’t know what number he will be…

Sure it might not exactly be the guard-responsibility-breakdown of Saunders’s preferred offense, but he’s already had to adapt it somewhat by running more plays through Blatche towards the end of last season. Saunders is a good enough offensive mind that he probably could come up with a hybrid system that takes advantage of both Wall’s and Arenas’s strengths. And if he can’t, or if it doesn’t work out, then I think the team should explore a trade. But not right from the outset before anyone has any idea how this will work.

(and no pun intended with the subject line)

I think it will sort of remind us of the Arenas/Hughes combination that worked back in 04/05. That was a young, up and coming tandem and they each played off of each other to make each other better players. Arenas and Wall are both slashers that can get to the rim. It’s a lot easier to tell a PG to play like a SG than it is the other way around. For the people who say Gil is washed up and has bad knees, 28 is not old (the Celtics are all nearing mid 30s and are still performing at a high level), he has not had an injury setback in quite some time, and one of the advantages of his injuries is that he has not played full seasons for the last three years. Looking at it that way, he isn’t as worn down as some of the other 28 year old guards out there that have been battling 82 games a year for the last five years.
Even after Hughes left, Arenas did not have to dominate the ball in order to be effective. Antonio Daniels handled the ball a lot and the Princeton offense in general allowed for a more even distribution among the guards.
A lot of people are comparing Wall to a young Isiah Thomas and I think it’s a fair comparison. People are also saying that Wall and Arenas together is too small of a backcourt. Look at what Thomas and Joe Dumars did together. That was one of the most electrifying backcourts of all time. I think in a lot of ways, Wall and Gil can emulate that and be comparable. Gil and Wall together will be one of the most exciting backcourts to watch in the league. Sure there are some great SGs out there in Kobe, Wade, or Joe Johnson, but playing with them are Fisher, Chalmers, and Bibby. How many backcourts would be able to stop both Wall and Gil?
Sorry if I’m rambling, but I’m just getting pumped up about this off season and looking forward to next season.