Actually Ted, I think we're fairly close on our assessment of Arroyo, I wasn't knocking Sloan, I was knocking Arroyo's ability to exist within the framework of Sloan's system. Your statement that he is not a Marbury or Davis-type guard is dead on the money, although I think he has that potential in a different more freewheeling offense.
I think he developed a rather over-inflated opinion of himself after the Olympics and has been looking develop imself along the line a Marbury or perhaps a Steve Nash, and THAT is where he has come into conflict with Sloan. No way you can compare him to Stockton, he is not the passer, nor does he possess the court vision of a John Stockton, who does. But Stockton was not a terribly creative guard either, primarily because he did not have to be, their version of the pick and roll, as predictable as the sun rising every morning, was virtually undefendable, if they needed creativity, they were it trouble, but they always had Hornicek to bail them out, that and Stockton's uncanny ability to find the open man. But it didn't mean they didn't live and die by set plays, they did. Arroyo wants to create, indeed, he may really have tha potential, but this is not the offense to do it in, maybe if Kirilenko was back, but not now.
I can't explain his defense, it is just simply non-existent.
