Point guards push No. 1 Kansas past Kansas State KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Bill Self has had success in coaching, two point guards have played simultaneously.
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In terms of where he ranks with the point guards, you know this is an era where you have a pretty sufficient group of point guards playing at a very high level.
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In the final two minutes, the point guards took over.
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As expected, two point guards were the first players selected.
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He ranks first among NBA point guards in field goal percentage.
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Nothing against Canaan, but confident, stable point guards don't do that.
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The problem is when you start comparing numbers to other point guards.
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And Smith did it against one of the league's preeminent point guards.
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D'Antoni has worked with some of the greatest point guards in history.
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It was also a noteworthy night for Miami's top two point guards.
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Black Americans may like point guards who dish out lots of assists.
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Kyle Lowry: star point guards with embarrassing playoff failures to shake off.
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Not too many (zero?) rookie point guards are making this play right here.
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There were pick-and-roll maestroes, playmaking stretch fours, and speedy point guards.
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The first day of free agency brought a run on starting point guards.
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Two elite college point guards, in Indiana's Yogi Ferrell and Carolina's Marcus Paige.
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He was always overshadowed by all those other great point guards in the league.
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Of all the rookie point guards, Fox has the biggest gaps in his game.
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After all, he was about to see his share of high-profile point guards.
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"He'll have some match-up problems with more athletic, bigger point guards," he said.
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Late in the first quarter, Coach Erik Spoelstra played three point guards at once.
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Those are the majority of the things that the point guards have to defend.
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It's less about dunks and centers than it is about perimeter shooting and point guards.
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Is Gasol or Lee stepping out far enough to contain any of those point guards?
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Over the course of summer league, all four rookie point guards looked like elite prospects.
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This is especially true when James targets the Warriors' point guards in pick-and-rolls.
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By the 1970s, pro basketball had great black point guards: Lenny Wilkens, Walt Frazier, Nate Archibald.
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The Wolves were missing point guards Jeff Teague (foot), Derrick Rose (ankle) and Tyus Jones (ankle).
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The Hornets were without two point guards, Tony Parker (lower back strain) and Devonte Graham (illness).
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Rose finished dead last among 20163 qualifying point guards in real plus-minus in 22016-217.
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In today's NBA, it's awfully difficult for poor-shooting point guards to lead top-tier offenses.
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Plenty of young, talented players—many of them point guards—have come back from ACL injuries.
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Let us not forget his name when discussing the best point guards in basketball, please. 14.
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DePaul's Charlie Moore is quietly playing like one of the best point guards in the country.
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Iowa State's Tyrese Haliburton knows well the challenges that face young point guards in college basketball.
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You've struck a blow for little brothers (and All-Star sons and backup point guards) everywhere.
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New York Knicks: The Knickerbockers are already big fans of crappy retread mismanaging womanizing former point guards!
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Employing seven natural bigs, four point guards, and Bruno Caboclo leaves the team with just three wings.
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Only five register an assist off the drive less often, and none of them are point guards.
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Bledsoe shot 222 percent at the rim, which placed him in the 240th percentile among point guards.
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He's a low-usage cog who can defend point guards while quietly posting 50/40/90 splits.
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He would often come to the D-Fenders' point guards at halftime and press for the ball.
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Following injuries to the team's two top point guards, Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue switched the lineup.
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G: Damian Lillard Lillard's range reflects what people expect from star point guards in the modern NBA.
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That the Knicks passed on two point guards — Dennis Smith Jr. and Donovan Mitchell — to take him?
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That led to a series of point guards signed to 10-day contracts to fill the void.
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"You've got two guys that want to win, two chippy guys, two short point guards," Rozier said.
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This got me thinking about parallels between other NBA point guards and classic 2463s thrash metal bands.
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With all three Jazz point guards sidelined because of injuries, Mitchell and Ingles split primary ball-handling duties.
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Point guards do not necessarily have to play a traditional role, but they should be able to shoot.
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Sometimes forwards toss up errant 813-pointers, and point guards tumble toward the hoop with no discernible plan.
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And then there's Tony Parker, one of the craftiest and quickest point guards to ever play in the NBA.
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Fred VanVleet The plucky backup point guards who're both indispensable and a nuisance are probably my favorite NBA subcategory.
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I've long believed that since the hand-check rules changed in the early 2000s, smaller point guards go undervalued.
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More importantly, their future appears murky, despite Wall evolving into one of the premier point guards in the league.
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Another factor that has to enter into the front office's calculus is the other point guards on the roster.
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The Minnesota Timberwolves used the fifth and sixth picks to select two point guards — Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn.
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Westbrook laughs when asked if Curry is an underrated defender; Durant says "he doesn't guard the best point guards" pic.twitter.
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I like seeing curiosity, and remember, the point guards that we remember are the ones that use both hands. Right?
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There aren't many NBA point guards who can make that dribble move, and fewer still who could finish the layup.
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Holiday once had the intelligence, athleticism, and fluid skill to be one of the world's top two-way point guards.
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Though his listed position is small forward, James often handles the ball and runs Cleveland's offense as point guards do.
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Point guards Derrick Rose (right elbow soreness) and Jeff Teague (right foot inflammation) were out, as was Andrew Wiggins (thigh).
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Now the team may have to rethink things with the arrival of Paul, one of the league's premier point guards.
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In both cases, putting the ball in the hands of young point guards has not hurt either team's postseason prospects.
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This isn't a situation that deserves much/any criticism, but it's interesting how rare Scott Brooks switches Porter onto point guards.
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Even if we compared Monk to point guards instead of scoring guards, his 63-percent mark would still be quite low.
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But she likes to handle the ball, and, you know, Geno expects his point guards to distribute, play a certain way.
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There's a couple guys where Mike [Michael Kidd-Gilchrist] will guard the point guards, but we don't have to hide him.
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In today's NBA, point guards who double as their team's top playmaker and primary scorer are essentially a prerequisite for success.
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On Pro Basketball Hey, Derrick Rose: Forget about Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, Damian Lillard and the other volume-scoring point guards.
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She came across a passage about the star point guards on that team — Sue Bird and Lindsay Whalen — that surprised her.
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Kyrie Irving, still only 103, has taken another leap, and is on the short list of the league's best point guards.
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"That is a fun style to play when you have point guards who can give you the ball like that," Brooks said.
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Point guards Cartier Diarra and Kamau Stokes combined for three points on 1-for-10 shooting, with two assists and six turnovers.
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It's critical and terrifying: A move normally associated with point guards, curbed by someone whose arms look like a pair of scythes.
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"The ball is going through them and they're almost playing like point guards," Thunder coach Billy Donovan told reporters of the pair.
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It's far too early to know just how good a NBA Draft lottery that contained six point guards will end up becoming.
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Rookie Kevin Knox added 23 points for New York, which also was without point guards Emmanuel Mudiay (shoulder) and Frank Ntilikina (groin).
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"It's kind of a great era for point guards right now in the N.B.A.," said Paige, who was drafted 55th over all.
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He's fighting through screens, he's guarding the best point guards every single night, and he's competing on that end of the floor.
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"Magic always says that great point guards were born with eyes behind their head and they have a sixth sense," Izzo said.
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And Malcolm Brogdon, a second-round pick in last year's draft, is one of the best young point guards in the league.
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A shrewd playmaker and gritty defender, Lowry doesn't often make the cut in "Best point guards" debates, but he's never far off.
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Tar Heels coach Roy Williams emphasizes mentality in teaching young point guards more than honing a crossover dribble or pull-up jumper.
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Waters, one of the country's best point guards, shook off a slow first half to finish with eight points and eight assists.
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Caldwell-Pope would be sublime beside Victor Oladipo, able to defend opposing point guards, spot up on the wing, and prey in transition.
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As it stands, Drummond's contract is a sunk cost and Jackson is one of the most frustrating starting point guards in the league.
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When you've got one of the top-three point guards in the league and the best player in the world, that's your job.
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But it left a gaping hole at center with the departure of Robin Lopez — along with point guards Jerian Grant and Jose Calderon.
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No one, it seems, is more susceptible to the sense of truth coming apart at the seams than sweet shooting NBA point guards.
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His mother, Tatiana, was one of the great point guards in Europe, winning two Olympic gold medals in basketball with the Soviet Union.
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And he reached into the midsections of opposing point guards, committing an average of one foul for every nine minutes of playing time.
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For point guards like Simmons, the defense's disrespect isn't as explicit because they have the ball, but it can still negatively affect a team.
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"Our two point guards did a good job, and our bench allowed us to survive Justin's foul trouble in the first half," McDermott said.
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The two point guards played together for 55 minutes during the regular season and have already shared the floor for 27 in the playoffs.
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Controversial or not, I hope fans remember that you have to include Allen Iverson in the conversation of best point guards of all time.
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So given all of the preceding, why is he seemingly the consensus fourth option among college point guards in the upcoming 2017 NBA draft?
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Though his listed position is small forward, James often handles the ball and runs Cleveland's offense as point guards do, reported the Associated Press.
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Summer League rosters are full of point guards drafted in the second round with no guarantees, and others who signed as undrafted free agents.
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If Fox's physical gifts, most notably his speed, translate like John Wall's have, he can be one of the league's 276 best point guards.
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It wasn't so long ago that he and Curry were on the same level, both slippery point guards given to glitchy, rangeless scoring runs.
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Among point guards, Thomas placed in the 96th percentile in usage, 94th percentile for points per shot attempt, and 763th percentile for turnover rate.
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Dennis Schröder, Atlanta Hawks Next summer's free agency market is flush with exceedingly desirable point guards, and the Hawks will have max cap space.
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Is it because he is too reluctant to shoot in an era when point guards are expected to be more than pass-first facilitators?
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And after the point guards were off the board, the night was spent discussing the league's current favorite attributes: length and long-range shooting.
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Now considered a possible NBA lottery prospect, Haliburton has a simple answer on how challenging it is for young point guards in college basketball.
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They have an unbalanced roster—heavy on centers, light on point guards—at a time when the league is trending in the other direction.
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On paper, Huerter is the ideal spot-up threat for Young, but if he can't defend starting point guards then comparisons to Thompson will die.
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Both are point guards who are gifted passers when they happen to feel generous, but whose primary instinct is to shoot early and shoot often.
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I see more of point guards using the big man out on the perimeter as a mismatch than I do small guards getting posted up.
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Denver is the fifth-youngest team in the league, with a pair of inexperienced point guards (Jamal Murray and Emmanuel Mudiay) who are seriously struggling.
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The Utah Jazz have not reached the playoffs since 2012, but Paige remained a long shot; there are six other point guards on the roster.
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He now has a team with Paul and James Harden, two ball-dominant point guards who are used to having absolutely everything run through them.
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On top of that, Strasbourg, which sits in fifth in the French league, having overcome a slow start, has a group of talented point guards.
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The good news is that this is a common affliction among young point guards—Rose and especially Westbrook certainly both suffered from it early on.
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On the other end, Payton is quick enough to body up on speedy point guards even when they're a few feet behind the three-point line.
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"We've got a special group of guys that can shoot the ball, and we have two point guards that can get in the lane," Selden said.
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Lopez was one of seven Nets to score in double figures on Sunday as point guards Jeremy Lin and Spencer Dinwiddie combined for 11 assists. 1.
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The Kings finished the game without both of their rookie point guards after Frank Mason injured his left heel at the end of the first quarter.
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Andre Iguodala of the Warriors described them as "new-age point guards," both capable of dominating games from the 3-point line and with dazzling drives.
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He has increased both his frequency and efficiency every year since then, and is now hanging out with the elite shooting point guards in the NBA.
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He praised the Raptors as a "very pragmatic and well-paced" team with tremendous point guards—and the rare problem of too many talented young players.
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In fact, when Hornacek was coaching the Phoenix Suns, he was not averse to going small by sending three point guards onto the court at once.
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There are two other point guards on the roster — Shane Larkin and Donald Sloan, who entered Monday's game having combined to start 56 games in eight seasons.
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"It's never easy for a European going to the NBA, especially for playmakers and point guards, but that's the position I wanted to be in," he said.
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Of the five point guards selected among the first nine picks of the 240 N.B.A. draft, two are on the current Knicks team coached by David Fizdale.
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Green and Andre Iguodala, who both play at forward, look like all-league point guards, shredding Cleveland's defense with pinpoint passing for uncontested shots at the rim.
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One of his most valuable assets is his versatility: Thompson is quick enough to defend point guards but powerful enough to hold his own against power forwards.
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Let's Play Tyus Jones and Jeff Teague Together Unlike Stevens's willingness to play his two point guards at the same time, Tom Thibodeau is allergic to the idea.
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Arizona State's Remy Martin, in a battle of two of the Pac-12's top point guards featuring he and Pritchard, led the Sun Devils with 29 points.
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Two of the better point guards in the NBA square off on Friday when Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook matches up with Boston's Isaiah Thomas on the Celtics' home floor.
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The Bucks blocked 16 shots and held the Pistons to 35.3 percent from the field, including a combined 4-of-18 by point guards Reggie Jackson and Ish Smith.
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ET, Fox Sports 271 ABOUT NORTHWESTERN (2-0): The Wildcats have one of the nation's most effective point guards in Bryant McIntosh (18 points, seven assists against Eastern Washington).
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Rodriguez has been one of the best point guards in the ACC, and he scored 28 points in the Hurricanes' win over Wichita State in the round of 32.
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But while the lives of most backup point guards would probably make for interesting movies, it's mostly just nice to hear about a movie project that is authentically inexplicable.
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Watching Moriah Jefferson and Kelsey Plum together during the San Antonio Stars' opening weekend this month, you'd never guess that the two point guards are supposed to be rivals.
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Westbrook's cyclonic game has fallen off some from his league most valuable player season in 2016-333, and he was never the easiest of point guards to play with.
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On defense he is among the league leaders in steals and blocks, and he can cover the swiftest point guards and the most solid big men with equal finesse.
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"One of the reasons we were so good that year was that we essentially had two point guards on the floor at all times," Bears Coach Lindsay Gottlieb said.
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I think perimeter defense for all the point guards playing in this era right now, I wouldn't say that there's any dominant defensive player in the point guard position today.
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The game featured a matchup of top-flight point guards — Irving and Houston's Russell Westbrook — as well as the only player in the league scoring more than Irving, James Harden.
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Nance noted that the 6-foot-5 Russell is playing in the context of Western Conference point guards, who might be the league's most skilled position group in the league.
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The Lakers are already without starter D'Angelo Russell (knee) and fellow point guards Jose Calderon and Jordan Clarkson combined to shoot 5-for-1153 with four turnovers versus the Pelicans.
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Much of this is because we're absolutely spoiled with brilliant point guards these days, so much so that a workmanlike creator like Conley can't help but feel a tad uninteresting.
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The Wizards were without point guards Isaiah Thomas (calf) and John Wall (Achilles), wings Jordan McRae (finger) and C.J. Miles (wrist), and centers Ian Mahinmi (Achilles) and Thomas Bryant (foot).
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Despite persistent rumors that San Antonio will sign Chris Paul or Kyle Lowry this summer, obtaining one of those All-Star point guards is all but out of the team's hands.
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It was hardly a suitable goodbye for the man considered the greatest French player ever and widely regarded as one of the top point guards of all-time - from any country.
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Of course, this is a world in which he's a star, weaving riffs about overpaid point guards and noble linemen, whiny celebrities and showmen politicians, into a story about his America.
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He made 49.3 percent of his two-point shots as a freshman, which, according to Cleaning the Glass, would land just above the 75th percentile among NBA point guards last season.
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Lillard, 28, and Westbrook, 30, two outstanding point guards with distinct styles, had fueled the drama of this short-lived series, but only Lillard proved capable of carrying his team forward.
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Individually, his team, like all the others, is a collection of MAAC players—point guards who are too small, shooters who are too mercurial or unlucky, young people who make mistakes.
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He makes the type of mistakes that young point guards tend to make, missing assignments on defense and dribbling into trouble when the easy play is right in front of him.
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For the purposes of this admittedly silly exercise, I'm limiting myself to point guards currently active in the NBA, and thrash bands that released at least one album in the 1980s.
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ABOUT THE THUNDER (55-27): Westbrook figures to test the Dallas point guards in Game 1 to get a feel for their fitness level and assess how much damage he can inflict.
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Conley, Gasol help Grizzlies stop Hawks, Schroder ATLANTA — The primary goal for Memphis on Thursday night was to slow down Atlanta's Dennis Schroder, one of the hottest point guards in the league.
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Arenas went on to explain that no point guards make all the greats like Shaq and Jordan who they were, and if the Lakers think Lonzo's gonna do that, they're fooling themselves.
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These are enough to fit in a couple backup point guards who are reportedly on the Cavs' radar, like Shelvin Mack and Jameer Nelson, along with pure shot creators like Will Barton.
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"I thought our two young point guards (Wade Baldwin and Harrison) played a solid basketball game without Mike on the floor against, obviously, an incredible basketball player," Grizzlies coach David Fizdale said.
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He had an aging star, journeymen, point guards who couldn't pass and a young Kevin Love, who rebounded fiercely and played defense with even less of a clue than he does today.
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A$AP Twelvyy joins hosts Ben Detrick and Jordan Redaelli to discuss the 2017 NBA trade deadline, the sad futility of the Sacramento Kings, the draft's top point guards, and Yams Day.
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I mean Frank, Mudiay, Trey Burke, they're gonna have the ball in their hands a lot because they're of course the point guards so I'm gonna be off the ball a lot.
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VICE Sports: You've mentioned Thomas as a fringe MVP candidate before, where do you think he ranks among point guards in today's league, and where would he actually land on your MVP ballot?
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It's likely we'll see Llull play a fair amount at shooting guard in Rio, as the Spanish team has a trio of NBA point guards in Ricky Rubio, Jose Calderon, and Sergio Rodriguez.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The N.B.A. is loaded with top-tier point guards, and a number of talented players at the position will have plenty of chances to prove themselves in Summer League play.
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Of the 13 teams remaining, five are fueled by point guards who measure 6 feet and under, redefining what it means to play below the rim in a game still dominated by giants.
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The game is already starting to move in slow motion for Ball, a pass-first savant whose assist-to-usage ratio ranks in the 78th percentile among point guards, per Cleaning the Glass.
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Backup: Joe Johnson (50.6 percent chance of induction) Point Guard Hall of Fame probability: 99.9 percent Credentials: Paul is widely regarded as one of the finest point guards to step on a court.
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Healthy again after several injury-riddled seasons in Chicago, he would prove, in his first season with the Knicks, that he could reclaim his mantle as one of the league's top point guards.
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The moral merits of super-teams aside, there may be no more contentious an area of NBA discourse in which to wade right now than the ranking of the league's top point guards.
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Recurring injuries are the worst, especially for point guards who have to chase the sport's fastest players over and under screens for 21.21-plus minutes while conducting an uptempo offense on the other end.
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The Gators will lean on senior Dorian Finney-Smith, who tops the team in scoring (14.9) and rebounding (8.2), and the improved play of point guards Chris Chiozza and Kasey Hill against the Buckeyes.
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Iverson also mentioned in his speech that point guards seem to become the best NBA coaches -- and since A.I. played some P.G., we asked Lue if "The Answer" was a candidate for a job.
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Not surprisingly, the Nets were walloped, 215-22012, as the Rockets exposed many of the flaws that have bedeviled the Nets: poor defense, careless third-quarter play and unstable production from their point guards.
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But when it comes to point guards, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks, and maybe a handful of baseball players who actually run, I'd say, meh, maybe they could have developed the skills.
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He's also listed at 6-feet, and while he's totaled 40.5 win shares over the last four years, the history of shorter point guards keeping up that level of production after age 32 is spotty.
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Joining Siakam, Poeltl, and Caboclo in Las Vegas (Powell would seem unlikely to attend) should be point guards Fred VanVleet and Wright, both of whom also have roles up in the air for next year.
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You spend so much time focusing on Cousins and Davis and you realize they've got an All-Star level point guard (Holiday), really two All-Star level point guards (Rajon Rondo) in the starting lineup.
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Except for the two centers, DeMarcus Cousins and DeAndre Jordan, and the two point guards, Irving and Kyle Lowry, every player is listed from 6 feet 7 to 6-203, and many play multiple positions.
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Paul, who has won two golds with the Americans, had already opted not to play this time, and his fellow point guards John Wall of Washington and Mike Conley of Memphis are coming off injuries.
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Kyrie Irving often puts up little or no resistance against opposing point guards with a head of steam, while Deron Williams simply isn't mobile or quick enough to contain some of the league's speedier guards.
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A trade to the Nuggets in 23 gave a boost to his career, and in Denver, Lever became one of the game's great triple-double threats and one of the best rebounding point guards in history.
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Even within the athlete world, there is the concept of micro-influencers such as yogis, triathletes, marathon runners, all the way to macro-influencers such as NFL Quarterbacks, starting NBA point guards and everything in between.
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Fortunately for Kennard, it's easier to hide wings than to hide undersized point guards or slower big men, as their height-athleticism combination relative to other positions makes them less prone to extreme mismatches on switches.
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Memphis veteran Mike Conley won the battle of the point guards against Schroder and forward Marc Gasol posted a triple-double to spark the Grizzlies to a 103-91 victory over the Hawks at Philips Arena.
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But here, in Oakland, playing with power forwards playing center who operate like point guards and a team whose entire ethos is grown from moving off ball, Klay is an honest to god Hall of Farmer.
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He is too long and too strong, too quick and too skilled, a 6-foot-11 power forward who can defend point guards at one end and post up the league's stoutest centers at the other.
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While a running clock is a familiar sight to quarterbacks or point guards, most tennis players are having their first experience facing a clock that counts down the time they have left to start a point.
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But the Rockets have been aggressive this summer in a hectic off-season for the N.B.A. Last month, they acquired Chris Paul, one of the league's top point guards, in a blockbuster trade with the Clippers.
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Schröder's height and ball-handling makes it tough to poke the ball away from him, yet you rarely see him circle behind the restricted area looking for cutters and corner shooters as most elite point guards do.
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There are specialist support players acting like point guards in assisting their more powerful teammates, who are expected to carry the team to victory much in the same way that a high-scoring NBA star might be.
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ET, FSN Sun (Miami), CSN Mid-Atlantic (Washington) ABOUT THE HEAT (23-21): Point guards Goran Dragic (calf) and Beno Udrih (neck) continue to be absent for Miami and both are expected to miss Wednesday's contest, too.
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Leave it to the Knicks to have wound up with two third-year point guards who have already convinced many league observers that neither has the skills or the mind-set to permanently lead a quality team.
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If point guards are the ones responsible for controlling the ball and making sure it gets passed to the right players in a game of basketball, project managers are the playmakers and change agents in an organization.
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But as recently as 2016, before the Suns shut Bledsoe down, he looked like one of the 10 best point guards alive, averaging 21.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 6.2 assists per game before the All-Star break.
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As for who woulda won the fight if nobody held the two point guards back ... Nipsey says he ain't sure -- but he does tell us the Lakers have a real shot at the NBA title this season!!
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He ranks fifth among all point guards in Defensive Real Plus-Minus, and the Pelicans allow 99.1 points per 100 possessions when he's on the floor, a rate that would make them the best defense in the league.
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That's true of everyone, but it's especially true when a player doesn't conform to the expectations of what a player at his position looks like—we see this all the time with other attacking point guards, like Westbrook.
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The game features a matchup of two dynamic senior point guards in Hawaii's Roderick Bobbitt and Cal's Tyrone Wallace, who averaged 15.3 points and 4.4 assists and had a season-high 26 points in Friday's loss to Utah.
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Samford topped South Alabama thanks in large part to going 28-of-31 from the foul line as point guards Christen Cunningham and Josh Sharkey combined to score 35 points while going 20-of-23 on free throws.
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All-Star forward Blake Griffin, who hasn't played this season due to hamstring and knee injuries, was joined on the sideline by the team's top three point guards — Reggie Jackson (back), Derrick Rose (hamstring) and Tim Frazier (shoulder).
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In doing so, Ferguson followed in the footsteps of current NBA point guards Brandon Jennings and Emmanuel Mudiay—the former went to Italy and played with Lottomatica Roma in 2008, while the latter played in China in 2015.
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Sue Bird, the gold standard for Connecticut point guards, averaged 14.4 points per game in her final Connecticut season, playing alongside Diana Taurasi and Swin Cash, and then an identical 14.4 points per game in her rookie WNBA season.
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Louisville coach Rick Pitino talked about trying to find "silver linings" with any injury after his team's most recent victory, and it appears he might have found one after losing his top two point guards for the foreseeable future.
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Shaun Livingston, one of the most steady-handed backup point guards in the N.B.A., is expected to start for the Warriors on Wednesday night when they play the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.
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Looking ahead, Jackson suggested that the Knicks did not need to pursue one of the top free-agent point guards, even if they have become among the most vital cogs in the predominant style of play in the league.
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The Knicks, despite opening a roster spot and saving room under the salary cap by waiving forward Maurice Ndour before the start of free agency, do not have the financial flexibility to vie for the top point guards anyway.
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But his defense was hardly impressive — he ranks 82nd out of 89 point guards in defensive real plus-minus this season — and that became an issue on a team that found it so hard to keep opponents from scoring.
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Instead, the Knicks traded him posthaste for the aging center DeAndre Jordan and a talented, but raw, point guard, Dennis Smith Jr. The Knicks already have raw point guards, so maybe management succumbed to a collect-them-all fever.
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On defense, bigs who in college relied on height and leaping ability are now forced to contest their athletic equals at the rim, or show on ball screens against point guards who are faster and more skilled than anyone they've seen.
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Aaron Gordon scored 213 points and Jonathon Simmons added 23 in his first start at point guard, but with their top two point guards out for a second straight game the Magic&aposs offense was stagnant most of the night.
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John Gillon scored a team-high 23 points for the Orange on 6-for-7 shooting from 3-point range, while Andrew White added points and point guards Frank Howard and Gillon combined for 15 assists and only two turnovers.
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Right now he has the same usage rate as Kawhi Leonard and DeMar DeRozan, a top-ten assist percentage, has made more threes than Bradley Beal and Kyrie Irving, and ranks 22nd in offensive Real Plus-Minus (13th among point guards).
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Jazz General Manager Dennis Lindsey acknowledged a dearth of point guards on his roster and said he hoped to work with Paige and his agent on a way to keep him in the organization, regardless of whether he makes the club.
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It's also possible that picking one of the point guards allows the Lakers to shift into sell mode on Russell or Jordan Clarkson—another option that wouldn't necessarily have been available, or attractive, to L.A. had they not kept their pick.
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D'Antoni has a reputation as a kind of point guard whisperer, a visionary whose playbook and mentoring have turned Raymond Felton, Jeremy Lin, and a sack of potatoes brought to life with powerful black majick into very-good NBA point guards.
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Sessions will join Frank Ntilikina, a 19-year-old who was taken with the eighth overall pick in last month's N.B.A. draft, and Ron Baker, who had some impressive moments as an undrafted rookie last season, as the team's point guards.
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With a lottery pick in an upcoming draft loaded with top-tier point guards, the Knicks should be able to pick a replacement for Rose, whose career in New York may indeed turn out to be a very brief one.
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On the first day of free agency, Irving, one of the league's best point guards, agreed to depart for the Nets, where he will be joined by the superstar forward Kevin Durant, who tore his Achilles' tendon in the N.B.A. finals.
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There's no way Chris Paul or Jeff Teague or Kyle Lowry or even Jrue Holiday—the top free agent point guards this summer—are going to Sacramento, so is it that insane to imagine Vivek and Vlade defaulting to Rose?
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Efficiency favors three-pointers and point-blank shots; the legalization of zone-ish defense discourages 1990s-style isolation scoring in favor of rapid ball movement; and a crackdown on defensive hand-checking has made sweet-shooting point guards more valuable than wing chuckers.
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Steph's role in the Dubs defense is often to guard off-ball shooters, save his energy for offense, protect him from fouls, and keep opposing point guards from wreaking havoc under the longer, more watchful eye of Klay Thompson and the like.
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The 13-year-old James will take over floor general duties from Lonzo Ball, who was traded to New Orleans, and Rajon Rondo, who remains one of three other point guards on the Lakers' roster along with Quinn Cook and Alex Caruso.
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The game features two of the nation's top point guards in Cal's Tyrone Wallace and Oregon State's Gary Payton II, who is the only player in the Pac-12 in the top 10 in scoring (16.8), rebounding (8.1), assists (5.2) and steals (2.4).
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He's not fast enough to switch out and guard speedy point guards on an island, but he's swift enough to stay high on pick-and-rolls, confront ball-handlers at the screen, and then keep them at bay until his teammate resumes responsibility.
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Missing three starters and several backups because of injuries, the Grizzlies — minus their top two point guards — overcame a sluggish start and scored a franchise-record 22 points in overtime to defeat the New Orleans Pelicans, 121-114, Friday night at FedExForum.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation says the Oklahoma City Thunder have traded Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul, a shake up of top point guards and a move that reunites Westbrook with James Harden.
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He moves at a different pace than a lot of other point guards, a trait that helps him create extra space to get off his shot—space he often needs because he's undersized compared to a lot of the players guarding him.
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I do see that the point guards are getting a lot of the attention, so you can call it whatever you want — a guard's league — but at the end of the day, it's the teams that play together that are going to win.
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In his move to the West, James takes over a team that now has both Rajon Rondo and Lonzo Ball, a pair of pass-only point guards who derive nearly all of their value from handling the ball and creating shots for others.
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And when you consider his size, his wizard-like ball-handling, and his shooting range that starts just inside the half-court line, it's easy to compare him to a pair of 6-foot-3 point guards: Stephen Curry and Damian Lillard.
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Faced with the prospect of going into the season with a thin corps of inexperienced point guards, the Knicks came up with a modest solution on Friday, signing the 31-year-old veteran Ramon Sessions to a one-year, $2.33 million contract.
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Back and forth it went, with point guards Jawun Evans of Oklahoma State and Derrick Walton Jr. of Michigan, trading crazy shot for crazy shot, electric pass for electric pass, each reveling in the spotlight whenever the ball was in his hands.
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The 34-year-old James will take over floor general duties from Lonzo Ball, who was traded to New Orleans, and Rajon Rondo, who remains one of three other point guards on the Lakers' roster along with Quinn Cook and Alex Caruso.
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The top three point guards are all ailing - J.J. Barea (groin) had a recent hot streak prior to his injury and is expected to play, starter Deron Williams (sports hernia) will attempt to play through the ailment and reserve Devin Harris (thumb) is probable.
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The Nets let Shane Larkin and Donald Sloan go, but opted to throw a combined $86 million at point guards Jeremy Lin and Tyler Johnson in the opening days of free agency; Lin signed with the team, but Johnson ultimately returned to the Miami Heat.
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Earlier this season, Andre Iguodala of the Warriors described both as "new-age point guards," capable of dominating games in all kinds of different ways — by launching 3-pointers, by zigzagging past defenders and launching themselves at the rim, by penetrating and finding teammates.
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Serbia has one of Europe's top point guards in Milos Teodosic and a top young prospect in the Denver Nuggets All-Rookie selection Nikola Jokic, but it will miss the injured Timberwolves forward Nemanja Bjelica and Spurs center Boban Marjanovic, who is a free agent.
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Relative to score-first wings and electric point guards, the rim-running, paint-diving, pick-and-popping power forward who switches on the perimeter, spaces the floor, protects the rim, passes, and puts the ball on the deck without hesitation is the rarest jewel.
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But he also plays plenty of minutes with Jordan Clarkson and Lou Williams, who have in the past attended masquerade balls disguised as point guards; he also shares the floor with Kobe Bryant, the seething black hole that keeps Stephen Hawking awake at night.
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Last Tuesday, the Hawks' Dennis Schroder scored 19 points and had 10 assists against the Nets and easily outclassed the two point guards collecting the majority of minutes in Lin's place — Isaiah Whitehead and Spencer Dinwiddie, a December signing from the N.B.A. Development League.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics, two teams already primed to contend for supremacy in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Conference next season, agreed on Tuesday to one of the biggest deals of a frantic off-season when they swapped All-Star point guards.
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In Milwaukee, there's a super-athletic point guard with freakishly big hands and long arms; in Denver, there's one of the least athletic centers around, who only happens to pass better than most point guards, and has a basketball IQ well beyond his years.
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ABOUT THE MAVERICKS: Nowitzki's injury is just the latest in a long line of ailments for Dallas, which won't know until close to game time whether or not point guards J.J. Barea (groin) and Deron Williams (sports hernia) or forward David Lee (foot) will be available.
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Just as having great spot-up shooters who force defenders to stay home can open up space for elite point guards to attack the rim, having a point guard who can pull up (think Steph Curry) creates gravity that gives his teammates more room to operate.
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And though there are about 90 roster spots for point guards in the N.B.A., a strong pedigree is no longer enough; players like Marcus Paige, a McDonald's All-American who led North Carolina to the national championship game, face an uphill climb to make a team.
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There aren't any attractive point guards available this summer who'd be willing to take the mid-level exception, but it'd be super interesting if Derrick Rose used the Spurs to ameliorate his reputation on a one-year deal before heading back out into free agency next summer.
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Mbah a Moute works especially well on the defensive end, where he matches up with the opponent's best perimeter scorer on most nights; this season, he's even spent copious time guarding point guards, which allows Paul to rest by sliding onto the second-greatest perimeter threat.
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Instead, Divac jettisoned Cousins, getting rid of one headliner from Coach John Calipari's one-and-done fellowship program at Kentucky, and taking a chance on another, Fox, who was one of four point guards taken in the top eight picks Thursday night, including Ntilikina by the Knicks.
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The team is wet trash when he sits and 17.7 points per 100 possessions better when he plays; his partnership with Marc Gasol is still roughing up everyone else for the 276th season in a row, and Conley is fifth in Real Plus-Minus among all point guards.
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All three teams have star point guards—in Kyrie Irving, Kyle Lowry, and John Wall, respectively—who seem likely to prove too much for Isaiah Thomas to handle defensively over the course of a seven-game series, especially while he's being counted on to power the Boston offense.
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The team is wet trash when he sits and 22.0 points per 100 possessions better when he plays; his partnership with Marc Gasol is still roughing up everyone else for the 276th season in a row, and Conley is fifth in Real Plus-Minus among all point guards.
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While Golden State guard and Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry was relatively healthy during the postseason, opposing starting point guards were not: injuries to Jrue Holiday, Mike Conley, Patrick Beverley, and Kyrie Irving, respectively, meant huge postseason minutes for backups Norris Cole, Nick Calathes, Pablo Prigioni, and Matthew Dellavedova.
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Dallas is likely to go after the other available free agent point guards, but if they strike out, as Dallas has more than once these last few years—looking at you, DeAndre Jordan and Dwight Howard—Rose might end up as his backup, backup, backup plan later in July.
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Watching Denver Nuggets point guard Monte Morris is like stepping into a time machine and going back into my grandmother's living room, where I would crouch in front of a 20-inch standard definition TV and fall in love with smart point guards who never made mistakes or looked flustered.
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All have managed to stand out for their skill and give hope to the regulars at the neighborhood Y. So when North Carolina and Indiana take the floor in Philadelphia on Friday, don't feel bad for point guards Yogi Ferrell of the Hoosiers and Joel Berry II of the Tar Heels.
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Then junior point guard Andres Feliz (13 points), who started for Frazier and was tasked with hounding point guards all the way up the floor, asserted himself defensively with three steals in a 67-second stretch that turned into five points and a 66-61 Illinois lead with 10:22 to play.
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Listed as a 6-foot-9 small forward, he is most likely closer to 7 feet, and he is capable of playing anything from shooting guard to power forward on offense, while being both quick enough and strong enough to keep up with players ranging from point guards to power forwards on defense.
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With Hayward largely struggling and Hill forced to maneuver against one of the best defensive point guards in basketball, Johnson's ability to both space the floor and take his man off the dribble from the power forward spot has been a godsend for a Utah team badly in need of another creator.
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Based on those timetables, it would appear that both the Celtics and the Warriors will not only be without their All-Star point guards for the rest of the regular season, but very easily could still be without them for when their first-round playoff matchups begin on April 14 or 15.
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Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, and now Kevin Durant all have skill-sets that incentivize small ball, but those lineups are not as unanswerable without Green's rare ability to protect the paint, rebound, switch onto point guards and wings, push the ball in transition, make brilliant passes, and knock down open threes.
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The various states that are carriers for college basketball's particular heritable madnesses had their local heroes and made those teenagers into little gods in all the usual ways, but those big programs also imported sinewy point guards and bowling ball power forwards from those Jesuit basketball academies and concrete-town public schools.
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An early draft of the paper cited the trajectories of Derrick Rose and Ty Lawson as two that anecdotally illustrated their findings: Both point guards, each of whom played in N.C.A.A. title games, saw their actual draft spots rise from their expected ones, and for a time enjoyed very successful N.B.A. careers.
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Like the other second-tier point guards, he has had his share of high-scoring games (he's gone for 30 or more 26 times, nine of which saw him get to 35 or more, and he's dropped 40 twice), but none of the others have been able to match Wall's prolific passing.
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And when Jason Kidd, head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks and one of the best point guards in the history of professional basketball, says that about his rookie point guard, Malcolm Brogdon, three times within the span of four questions, it's a big, blinking neon sign that Brogdon has his coach in his corner.
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Despite never advancing past the second round in what's otherwise been an exceptional career, Paul was about to join forces with James Harden, a multiple-time MVP runner-up who's smack dab in the middle of his prime, in an offensive system that's had the same effect on point guards that spinach did on Popeye.
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Some of this is thanks to every one of their point guards not being a good enough shooter to convince defenders they should do anything but duck deep under ball screens and either meet them on the other side or stop, look at their watch, and wait for a shot to hit the rim.
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He hit just 36.9 percent of his 3-point attempts during his four-year college career and has hit only four of 20 in the N.B.A. And his pedigree hardly matches those of the Knicks' top point guards, Derrick Rose, a former most valuable player, and Brandon Jennings, a former No. 10 draft pick.
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ABOUT THE MAGIC (6-3): Orlando scored at least 113 points in its first seven games before dipping to 1053 in a hard-fought win at Memphis on Wednesday and then bottoming out versus the Bulls, with hamstring injuries to point guards Elfrid Payton and D.J. Augustin catching up to the team on the offensive end.
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"Our defense tonight ... we went with a lineup with three point guards on the floor at times, and that defense wanted to win the game," said Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who lost Griffin for an estimated 4-to-6 weeks when the team's leading scorer broke his hand in an altercation with a team assistant equipment manager.
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The team includes the transfers Robert Carter Jr., a junior who redshirted last season, and Rasheed Sulaimon, a senior who was dismissed from Duke's team a year ago; the 6-foot-11 freshman Diamond Stone; and the returning stars Jake Layman and Melo Trimble, a sophomore who has become one of the best point guards in college basketball.
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Sacramento fell behind by 291 points on Friday and was down 26 entering the fourth quarter before rallying to pull within two points of the Los Angeles Clippers with a small lineup that featured Cousins at center, Rudy Gay at power forward, Arron Afflalo on the wing and two point guards in Darren Collison and Ty Lawson.
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The sacrifices of Robin Lopez, hardworking center and solid citizen, and of point guards young and old (Jerian Grant and Jose Calderon) does not perceptibly affect the Knicks' future — unless Rose gets hurt or leaves as a free agent next summer and Grant, a fine athlete with good defensive footwork, develops into a star or a high-level starter.
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While centers A.J, Hammons and Isaac Haas and forwards Vince Edwards and Caleb Swanigan produced a collective 48 points and 26 rebounds, point guards Thompson and senior Johnny Hill combined for 20 points and no turnovers, and along with Rapheal Davis, held Buckeye guard Kam Williams scoreless during the final half after he scored 14 in the first half.
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In an era of ball-dominating point guards and vanishing post players, LeBron James's pursuit of Stephen Curry on Thursday night late in the fourth quarter of a game the Cleveland Cavaliers were already leading by 23 was an exclamation point to the convincing argument that James had already made about who remains the N.B.A.'s premier impact player.
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He has been a useful player for some good Cleveland Cavaliers teams, but his utility is tied not so much to any nameable basketball skill—his defense is good but nowhere near transcendent; he is, as backup point guards go, definitely a backup point guard—as to his singular knack for vexing pain-in-the-assery.
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In a recent report by ESPN, Irving was said to want "very badly" to play for the Knicks, who, since Walt Frazier styled and beguiled at Madison Square Garden into the late 193s, have had exactly two All-Star point guards: Micheal Ray Richardson, over three successive seasons beginning in 1979-80, and Mark Jackson in 1988-89.
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This is heady stuff for a former second-round pick who was traded by the Sacramento Kings for Alex Oriakhi and a trade exception back in July 260, dumped at the trade deadline by the Suns last year after that team determined it had too many point guards, and is signed to a contract that stays comfortably in the six million range annually through 223.
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The frontcourt of Dorian Finney-Smith (team-best 13.2 points per game), John Egbunu (11) and Devin Robinson (11) has carried the Gators' offense for most of the season while Allen, along with point guards Chris Chiozza (153 assists with just two turnovers in the last five games) and Kasey Hill (10 points, four assists and four steals against Georgia) have started to provide them with offensive support.
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In its standard form of points, rebounds and assists (versions including blocks or steals are extremely rare), it requires an athlete both to create at least ten successful scoring opportunities for his teammates—a skill generally associated with point guards, the position occupied by the sport's shortest players—and to secure possession of the ball following a missed shot at least ten times, a play that usually requires the height and strength of power forwards or centres.
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Two of the league's most impressive point guards will take center stage when fifth-seeded Oklahoma State tangles with No. 623 seed Iowa State on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo. The Cowboys' Jawun Evans leads the conference in assists (6.3), ranks second in scoring (18.7) and fourth in steals (1.9), while the Cyclones' Monte Morris joined Evans on the All-Big 12 first team, averaging 16.2 points while sporting a NCAA-best 6.2 assist-to-turnover ratio.
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Adelman built Sacramento's open, free-cutting offense around Webber and Vlade Divac—"those two guys were our point guards, basically," Peja Stojakovic told Grantland's Jonathan Abrams in 2014—and Petrie won a pair of NBA Executive of the Year Awards, first after the 1999 season for building the raggedy, romping, super-fun iteration of the team that ran through Jason Williams, and then again in 2001 for shaping that into the comparatively more efficient but equally entertaining juggernaut that peaked at 63 wins in '01-02.
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