As I was coming across a popular NBA forum, NBADimensions.net, the user Pacers4Life (a great guy) reported that now former Oklahoma City Thunder's point guard Earl Watson has agreed to a one-year deal with the Pacers.I thought this wasn't true at all, but hey, Larry Bird said he was going make this off-season active with Indy this year. Also, I was searching on Google News if this was true and wrote "Earl Watson Pacers" in the search engine. Results came up and there were many sources. So it was all true.
Earl Watson is coming to Indy. And I think this is just great.
I was about to write a post about Andre Miller coming to Indy until that NBA Dimensions post came up (kudos to you Pacers4Life!). Now here I am, writing an article of Earl Watson in Indy. I definitely see him fitting well with the squad and I'd love to see how he turns out with us.
But no one is going to speculate it so I guess it is up to me. Get ready, because here I am to break down lil' ol' Earl Watson fitting in with yours truly, the Indiana Pacers! You just have to know what this is. It's been going on for well over six months, this is the world-famous NBA Talk!
So now Indy has gotten Earl Watson.So that's where we are at right now as that we know Watson is in Indy, unless if you don't have a brain (sorry to those people who don't). Watson is most notably known for a good backup point guard, and that is what Indiana needs, badly.
With Jarrett Jack not coming back to Indy, it's time for the Pacers to look for a point guard to comfort T.J. Ford. Although Travis Diener may be some help, A.J. Price is in as well and I still don't believe Diener is good enough as the second point guard in the rotation. He's best at third like he was in his previous years with Indiana.
But that does make A.J. Price second in the rotation and he is only a rookie. He has a lot to learn from Diener and Ford so the Pacers had to pick someone to help out T.J. right in the rotation. So that makes Watson the answer, doesn't it?
I think so.
As what I normally do with this famous series, let's see how Watson fits in the starting rotation:
PG: T.J. Ford/Earl Watson/Travis Diener/A.J. Price
SG: Brandon Rush/Mike Dunleavy
SF: Danny Granger
PF: Troy Murphy/Tyler Hansbrough
C: Roy Hibbert/Jeff Foster/Josh McRoberts
I believe that is pretty reasonable, don't you think? Watson creates a lot of change to the offense as the second-team shows Watson, Dunleavy, Granger, Hansbrough, and Foster as the starting five after the first rotation gets finished. The second rotation does look as solid as the first one and it creates problems for other defenses when they face Indy.
You guys should really listen to Strotty, who said the Pacers will get the eighth seed after the 2009-10 season after he made a preview of his 2010 NBA Mock Draft. It's going real good actually and you should check it out. Anyways, back to the story.
So you are probably wondering why the paragraph above was about someone's blog with a cool name? Well, he did say the Pacers will make the playoffs in which I totally agree with. Just look at that rotation up there in the bold letters! You can't deny that the rotation is great.
The Pacers need a quality backup point guard that can help them all around the court, and I think they found it in Earl Watson. So watch out for the Pacers next year, and pay a very close attention to this kid name Earl.
"So who are you?" I ask.
"My name is Earl....Watson," he replies.
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