Paul George is Not at All Excited About Switching Positions

You can mitigate that by playing another big forward next to him, like Solomon Hill, who had a solid season previous year.

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After a horrifying leg injury cost George most of last season, he said Thursday that he is feeling good, gotten bigger and stronger, and is ready to show everyone that he is back. “And I agreed with him”.

But first up, the Pacers have made it known that they are playing small ball this year, which led to the ultimate decision of trading away center Roy Hibbert to the LA Lakers.

“I’m excited about it”, Vogel said in April, per the team’s official website. “We’ve been in the bottom third offensively for a couple years now”.

How much time he’ll actually play at the four-spot still to be determined.

George has no useful experience at power forward, even against backup units.

In some ways, this should come as no surprise. In hopes of making this season better than last, the Pacers decided to switch Paul George’s position from Small Forward to Power Forward, and George isn’t too happy about it. Vogel seems very set on starting George at this point in time, which would make them a much faster team.

“That’s kinda new to me”. But I did it, and I loved it after I did it. I think guys do that later in their career. So I don’t necessarily feel the needs to play a different position, especially coming back into a new season starting fresh again. “It’s definitely a change. We’ll see how it goes”. Bird saw East rivals use LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony in the position and thought that it might work with George, but USA Today had PG13’s comments that were not so encouraging.

Um, you know it’s, uh, I was open for – to try it out.

“We’ll see how it goes”.

George told USA TODAY Sports’ Sam Amick he isn’t exactly sold about the move this week, though he will help the team any way he can. It’s the concern just over the course of a season just how my body would take it, especially coming off the injury that I had and a whole year of rehabbing. “I see the positives in it”. I’m open to the change, so we’ll see how it goes. I’m open to the position.

George added via an interview with ESPN.com: “I pride myself on being a ballplayer first and foremost, but there’s a difference playing the four”. In actuality, though, the added responsibilities could hurt his play this season.

The beauty of the small-ball stretch 4 is that it gives teams a new look that they have to deal with. To go to the lengths he did to reshape this team, as quickly as he did, looks pretty extreme, though.

[Yahoo Fantasy Basketball: Sign up for a league today]. While there are still some lingering questions about George’s health from the gruesome leg injury last summer, he should find himself less of a nightly target by defenses. According to the Indy Star, Larry Bird hatched the idea to make George a power forward, and with Vogel putting that vision into practice, the Pacers will have the necessary brainpower to make the change work, if it’s a viable option. Or what if the Bucks go big with John Henson and Greg Monroe up front?