boldinfan18 said:
I really havent seen George play hardly at all is a ok defender? Also is he anygood at creating his own shot or is he slow and cant get open?
Devean George is a great athlete and a good defender, but very weak offensively: he's not a good finisher inside and can't create his own shot at all, so his only real value is as a spot-up shooter, which he's not great at, either. Devean has a career shooting percentage under 40%, despite spending most of that career on a dominant offense; his career 3pt% is 34%, so relatively speaking, that's the strength of his offensive game. Devean's spots are the two corners.
If there's something on offense the Suns can tease from Devean that the Lakers couldn't, it's as a finisher on the fast break. He'd probably prefer to run to the corners instead, though.
Defense is another story--Devean is a solid and versatile defender who does a lot of 'little things' and puts his athleticism to good use in scramble situations. The occasional bonehead play aside, Devean is a very good help defender who can cover ground quickly and challenge shots at the rim. His man defense is also decent, although he couldn't handle Barbosa at all. His 'wheelhouse' defensively has been the bigger swingmen and SFs, who have trouble posting him up because of his strength, (relative) quickness and activity.
At SF/PF in the D'Antoni system, Devean would probably be most comparable to Walter McCarty. He's not quite as long as McCarty was, but he's significantly more athletic, thicker and also a year younger than McCarty was in 2005.
