Ball-handling duties are only a dire need if you don’t have players who can handle the ball. This, by all accounts, is the Nuggets mantra just a few days after waiving point guard Erick Green in order to make room to fill an area of need, small forward, with Kostas Papanikolaou.
And yet it remains a relevant question because of the team’s recent history.
Two seasons ago, when the Nuggets encouraged Andre Miller to take an extended leave of absence after a spat with then-coach Brian Shaw, it culminated in his trade. Not having a third point guard while Miller was gone became a real issue when injuries to the other two — Ty Lawson and Nate Robinson — left the team with no point guards in a game, and with just one the majority of the time because Robinson was out for the season with a torn ACL.