Jack — come up with some good items for us, ok?

So today is the day to fire away with questions! Give me what you got!

I’m willing to go into the season with our current lineup minus Dee plus Dj strawberry. I’ll be more comfortable with those three point guards and what they can contain and compete against in that position. Beyond that Nick young needs to get leg strength. Also forget his offense if he doesn’t learn defense I wouldn’t give him time on the floor. He’s learning bad habbits and by the time we’ll be running him alot it will be ingrained that he can coast without it and it’ll be too late. He has to atleast have the right stance.

Dmac needs to continue working on his jumper. I’m glad it was falling for him in summer league. What concerned me during regular season was his quickness defensively. He seemed slow to me. Atleast he’s lost some weight so maybe his step is quicker. He did a good job on donte green who funny enough is a T-mac type player. I’m suprised he wasn’t really taken high. A 6 foot ten true wing. He and randolph are interesting in that aspect.

Pech is always injured I’m concerned. When he gets injured early he falls behind. I suppose he still has to develop and it takes time but as you watch it happen in real time without sureness of the result its painstaking. I suppose the same will be said about mcgee but mcgee just needs to get stronger and thats it. Post moves follow and he’ll be good. I just want him to be able to compete with the centers that will be ruling his time. Bynum and Oden. He has the tools that if he gets a good teacher he will be our best center in years.

Blatche looked solid. I was laughing at Blatches killer mentality talking s**t to Houstons point. NOt sure if its Aaron miles, then tried to put the game away with a three pointer. It was foolish but he tried to put a dagger in Houston. His conditioning and strength is helping him more now and hopefully it improves during the offseason. I was impressed by his post moves though. Also his off the dribble moves as long as no guard is close by. I just want to watch his decisions and his timing, when he decides to go fast and when he’s patient. I want to see how much he can control his environment.

Sportswiz get someone to interview nick about his off season training. Talk to ernie to see whats being done, what they’re going to do about his defense. Make it a topic. I heard he is training with don maclean and might be weight training hence the off target shots. But talking to him and Ernie might make him emphasize strengthening his running strength with a parachute behind him (cause he gets knocked off his path easy), it might emphasize his getting proper technique in offense and defense. Better stance etc. He’s showing no sign of work on his defense. Defense wins championships. He won’t be integral part of that unless he changes that. There’s no If’s or buts about it. We won’t just go and get lucky. He has to be training smart.