You seemed to take issue last year when someone made a similar statement when guessing what types of players Beilein might want.
I disagree that the statements were all that similar. The statement to which I was responding a year ago said this:
In the post you quoted, you bolded "and Beilein's vision of five players who can all dribble, pass, shoot and drive."
Different statement, different response. I had two specific objections to Beilein's vision that aren't applicable to what Bickerstaff tweeted:
1) As I explained in that original post, if you insist that all five players be able to "dribble, pass, shoot, and drive", you're going to miss out on some fantastic talents who can't do
all four of those things. I don't want to bypass a Jokic because he can't drive, or a Greek Freak because he can't/couldn't shoot. It is essential to have talents that fit together, but there are many ways to do that other than with the -- for all practical purposes -- unattainable dream of 5 guys who each can do all that stuff on offense. To me, Beilein's vision reeked of him having a very particular system that required ideal players, and I thought then and think now that is a bad way to build a team
In contrast, Bickerstaff never said anything about a vision of all five guys able to to all those things. He just made a pretty generic statement that we need some more versatile guys, which is correct. More importantly...
2) Beilein's "vision" had no mention at all of
defense. Bickerstaff said the exact opposite: he wants players who "are Swiss Army knives on the defensive side of the ball." That's fantastic, and I agree 100% with that.
