Where does Douby fit in?

[Vlade4GM]

With Martin coming on strong this year where does Douby fit in with the future of this club? Will he learn to become a facilictator and be a scoring pg? Will he sit on the bench forever? Will he be part of a trade?

 

[NoBonus]

I think it really depends on how well he develops as a player.

 

[Vlade4GM]

yea, but what i'm saying is his only shot as a starter on this team is at the pg spot. so do we develop him as a pg? can he do that? do we just accept him as a backup or do we trade him?

 

[nbrans]

He just needs to play. We can worry about where he fits when we know how good he is. To my eye he has some pretty stellar potential -- he can get his shot off at almost any time and he's supposedly a dead-eye shooter, although we haven't seen it besides the Golden State game. His defense has also been a welcome surprise, he's got those long arms and is pretty active. He hardly gets the ball right now when he plays though, and he seems to have some of the rookie jitters.

I just think he needs to play until we know what we have and then we can worry about his role later.

 

[CruzDude]

Douby is a 2 guard, a shooting guard. He is 6-7 so can present matchup problems. But more than anything he has to establish what is his NBA game. The intent appears to have been him as an outside shooter-scorer. He'll need a year or two more to figure out what is his best position.

Cisco is more a 3 guard than a 2. But there are a lot of 3 guards out there who are 6-9 to 6-11!!

But don't see Douby as a PG. Price was to have been a backup PG.

 

[Ryle]

Douby is a 2 guard, a shooting guard. He is 6-7 so can present matchup problems. But more than anything he has to establish what is his NBA game. The intent appears to have been him as an outside shooter-scorer. He'll need a year or two more to figure out what is his best position.

Cisco is more a 3 guard than a 2. But there are a lot of 3 guards out there who are 6-9 to 6-11!!

Douby's like 6'2"...6'3" at most.

 

[Vlade4GM]

i hope that is a typo, douby is not 6'7, he's 6'3 175

 

[hrdboild]

I think the ceiling for Douby realistically is as a Bobby Jackson type off-the-bench scorer combo guard. He'll need to develop some point guard skills, but I don't think it was ever intended to groom him for the starting point guard role. That's not a role you usually fill at the bottom of the draft anyway. And at 6-3 he's not ideal as a starting SG either. He could be a solid rotation guy though. I don't think the development of Martin as a leading scorer affects that at all other than probably there being less minutes available for guards off the bench.

 

[fnordius]

Douby's like 6'2"...6'3" at most.

For the record, Starvin' Quincy has an NBA height of 6'3".

How to determine your NBA height: put on a pair of shoes which have nice, thick soles before measuring yourself -- 1.5"-2" boosts are popular. They will round up, so if you're, say, 5 feet, 11.25 inches tall, definitely go for the 2" shoes, then your NBA height will be 6'2".

 

[HndsmCelt]

Douby is a 2 guard, a shooting guard. He is 6-7 so can present matchup problems. But more than anything he has to establish what is his NBA game. The intent appears to have been him as an outside shooter-scorer. He'll need a year or two more to figure out what is his best position.

Cisco is more a 3 guard than a 2. But there are a lot of 3 guards out there who are 6-9 to 6-11!!

But don't see Douby as a PG. Price was to have been a backup PG.

I have to disagree with every part of this post. As other posters pointed out Douby is at best 6-3 more like 6-0 and light... and that presents the problem. He has the essential skill set of a 2 gaurd but lacks the size to be effective there. The scouts and coaches see potential for him to be a spark plug type PG like Bobby Jackson but he still needs to develop his passing, and court vision compleetly. So in the mean time he will have to bounce back and forth and is probably MOST effective in a set up where Cisco or Ron take most of the duties at innating the offense with him. Long term who knows, if he keeps working he can be another Bobby or Boykins comming in and giving the team instant offense from the 1 spot.

 

[Bricklayer]

With Martin coming on strong this year where does Douby fit in with the future of this club? Will he learn to become a facilictator and be a scoring pg? Will he sit on the bench forever? Will he be part of a trade?

He doesn't fit in. Yet.

He's the classic college boodoggle -- the college OG with NBA PG size. Has no natural position at this level. Too small to play big minutes at OG, doesn't have a PGs skillset. Likely means he will never be a starter. So his route, especially in Sacto because of the Bobby Jackson experience, has to be to develop those PG skills enough to secure a role one day as a combo guard scorer off the bench.

Now, the thing is that right now he fits even worse, because our main backup is John Salmons, who is a 2/3/1. So after John's minutes are factored in there really are no OG minutes, few SF minutes (taken by Cisco) and really just a handful of pure PG minutes. And if that's all the minutes you have available, you'd do better to have a pure PG as a backup to eat those minutes and contribute all the true PG skills.

 

[nbrans]

I don't know how people can knock Douby's distribution skills since he's never really had the ball. Even when he was at PG Salmons would bring the ball up the floor. He was a pretty good passer at Rutgers, I think we need to see the ball in his hands some before deciding he can't be a good PG.

 

[Vlade4GM]

yea, he has the physical skills needed to be a pg, whether he has the mentality for it who knows.