You need a shooting guard.

This is not earthshattering insight, I understand.  Talent is Good (tm).  When in doubt, put the best player out there you can.  And I'm not saying Cleveland doesn't have a shooting guard, depending on whether this is Tuesday in the Central Time Zone while the moon is waxing and LeBron is playing SG instead of SF or PG or left wing or whatever else we ask of him.

And it's not like I've watched every minute of every game.  I have children of various sizes and a job and I'm about six years in debt to sleep deprivation and the NBA is not my primary sports interest, anyway.  But the two enduring scenes I have from this playoff season are Richard Hamilton, who is nine years old and weighs sixty-two pounds, running around like a nut ALL THE FREAKING TIME and Kobe Bryant making the Kobe Bryant Face: you know, the one that makes you want to smack it because he's just done something you secretly admit is really quite awesome but damn, does he have to make that face after doing it?  This doesn't include Reggie Miller (who has fifty years and six ounces on Rip Hamilton) throwing in preposterous bullshit or Dwyane Wade (Dwyane?  Is this serious?  Next you'll be telling me that "Isiah" is pronounced "eye ZAY uh") doing preposterous bullshit (and do not tell me this man is a point guard: this is simply untrue.  He is a one-and-a-half, maybe, but he's not a one.) or the Spurs losing because they had too little preposterous bullshit.  (The Wolves appeared to get their preposterous bullshit from their one-and-a-half, Sam I Am, although Latrell was certainly capable of preposterizing in a pinch)

It's best, apparently, if your shooting guard runs on some sort of renewable energy source, like nuclear fusion or maybe photosynthesis.  I get tired watching people chase Richard Hamilton.  I get tired READING about people watching other people chase Richard Hamilton.  And Richard Hamilton gives these interviews at the end of games say, in effect, "It's nice to have played 48 minutes, because now I'm warmed up and will now sprint back and forth between the arena and the hotel sixteen times to cool down."  I believe he left the Staples Center Tuesday night to begin jogging to Detroit.  Can someone tell him that it's only the Stanley Cup playoffs that require growing a weak beard, though?  Man makes Jarome Iginla look like Grizzly Adams.

I hate Kobe Bryant.  I invoke the Thumper Rule.  But, in case you were wondering, yeah, he's good.

I guess the REAL insight would involve telling you who would be great and reasonable to be this shooting guard for the Cavs.  Is LeBron that guy?  Shoot, LeBron is every guy.  You could probably post him up a la Magic and he could play center better than the Mihm/Doleac/Stewart type shenanigans we've put out there in recent years.  I have no doubt that LeBron can play shooting guard.  The question is whether this is the best use for him.  Do you really want LeBron James chasing Rip Hamilton out to Toledo and back for forty-eight?  Would you rather James be matched up against Kobe or Devean George?  From a distance, LeBron looks a lot like a SF to me, but I yield the floor to smarter and more knowledgeable folks on that one.