Lou Williams only one spot over Redick?
I'd much rather have JJ Redick on my team, to be honest.
I'm not sure why, he's not really better than Williams at anything, aside from being a slightly better shooter on long jumpers.
Lou, on the other hand, is younger, a better defender, much better at creating his own shot, and much better at drawing fouls and getting to the line.
Not to mention, a guard who's 31 years old is much more likely to get worse than remain the same. Especially guards like Redick who rely a lot on their speed.
Redick just turned 31, while Williams is turing 29. So the difference isn't that much.
Your second comment makes me question if you've actually seen Redick play or you meant to say "Williams". Williams is the one the relies on his speed and historically speaking undersized guards, who rely on speed, don't age well. Shooters, however, usually have very long careers as the spacing they provide is always in high demand.
Williams is fast because he is a PG, but to say he relies on his speed is like saying Chauncey Billups, or Paul Pierce, rely on speed to get their shot off.
I have to question how much you've seen Redick as well, because he's a player who gets a large amount of his shots from running around screens to get open. Doc treats him much like Ray Allen. Take a look at much Ray's offense dropped when he hit the wrong side of 30 (and then continued to get older). Ankles are the first thing to go.
I wouldn't say Ray Allen relied on speed to get his shots off. I would say that this helped him early in his career as a scorer (he could create his own shot as well as anybody early in his career, something too few give him credit for) but I think his ability to excel as a shooter had more to do with his incredible fitness, perfect timing, outstanding basketball IQ and excellent shooting form.
I feel he relied a lot more on his awareness and basketball IQ to know exactly when and where screens were coming from and when his defender started to fall asleep, so that he could create enough of a head start to get separation from his defender. Then he relied on his incredibly fitness to run off as many screens as he needed to (sometimes as many as 3 or 4) in order to create just enough separation to allow him to get off a shot with that lightning quick release.
I think most of the time it was more a case of his defender getting tired or getting stuck on a screen that gave Ray the space he needed, rather than outright speed / quickness.
That's not to say he didn't have some degree of quickness, but I wouldn't describe him as explosively quick - at least not when he was in Boston (and moving towards his mid 30's).
Remember you're talking about a guy who shot 45%, 42% and 38% at the ages of 36, 37 and 38 (respectively) and who continued to average double figures in scoring (despite reduced minutes and playing behind 3 All-Stars) right up to the age of 38.
He just has old school fundamentals in that he knows how to read defenders, he knows how to time movements, and he has shooting form down to perfection.