First off, Dragic is not dead yet. Remember, he was a rookie last year. He is sucking now, but that doesn’t mean he won’t turn the corner.

Also sucking now is Alando Tucker. Imagine the dropoff in production when you replace Barbosa with Tucker. Barbosa is a much better athlete, shooter, he is quicker and he can play point in a pinch. Tucker is an unknown commodity due to his injuries, but let’s face it, if he was Kobe, we’d know it by now.

Sorry, Grant is a starter until he says he isn’t. He is old, his body gets warmed up and he has to play. He can’t just sit and come in cold again. Won’t work.

I sense the FO is balking at signing a big for two reasons-the cost, and there probably aren’t many good alternatives out there. May be best to dangle in the wind for a couple months and let Lopez heal, especially if Clark can do what Lopez does (which is not a given).

So where can we get equal value for Barbosa? Who do you have in mind? I agree that Barbosa has limitations, isn’t a PG and is too small to guard the big 2’s in the league. Still, he has upside and he can score. With what you’ve done, you’ve made the second unit pretty bad. You lost the best scoring threat we had in Barbosa and replaced him with ?, you’ve put Tucker on the court, which he certainly doesn’t deserve right now, and you’ve put Clark in a position where he has to score, which is clearly not ideal based on what we’ve seen thus far in preseason.

Lastly, it could be that J-Dudz is ready to start, however it could be that he isn’t. Looking at a reserve who is playing well and concluding that he can start and play well based on his bench play isn’t completely sound logic. And, you’d probably piss off Grant Hill in the process….Just my two cents