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Old 04-06-2008, 04:34 PM
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Re: Let Rip be our Manu!!

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Originally Posted by raxrets View Post
But big difference is that manu relies heavily on his skills while rip's game is heavily dependant on ball movement, screens, etc. Learning when rip jumps from screens and where needs atleast a year of cooperating and this experimnent has almost been made (rip + bench) and can't say it was effective: since rip was "go-to-guy", he tried 1on1 and we all know how bad is rip on this.

That's a good point that Rip's scoring relies on the Pistons starters running the offense. I'm all for mixing things up now and then, but trying something this radical at this stage of the game would be disastrous, in my opinion.
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