I’m not really sure how to organize and cover all of the issues, so let’s just dive right in.
Obviously we know that the shooting guard spot going into the season was confusing yet manageable. The Clippers’ highest concentration of talent was (and arguably still is) at the guard positions, yet really we’re only talking about the point guard spot. And due to this glut of points guards, one injury (Chauncey’s, if you hadn’t heard) means that the only player who could effectively defend the shooting guard spot is out. There has been talk about a Caron Butler-Ryan Gomes shooting guard/small forward lineup, but that is neither reasonable offensively nor defensively to my eyes, nor would I guess to too many other reasonable eyes.