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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Point Guard Rankings 2019-20

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Steph Curry has been the top-ranked PG in the NBA, does he retain his crown? We also get into a huge argument about where Russell Westbrook should rank, and tackle other controversial players like Kyrie Irving, Trae Young, Dennis Schroder, Eric Bledsoe, and the rest of the league’s floor generals. You can subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player.  And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux.  Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0

Finish out the week here with point guard rankings as we look forward to doing the top 10 players in the NBA

0:06.3

Next week had to get this one done first and this one

0:10.6

I think it's gonna be pretty straightforward. It's really most of these guys are the engines of your offense

0:18.6

That is their role that you don't have as much specialization among point guards

0:23.6

I think once you get down, you know, maybe into the teens

0:27.0

Then you can start to say okay, what's more valuable a guy who can run your offense at a decent level or someone who can fit in

0:35.4

Shoot play defense maybe do a little ball handling next to another ball dominant start another position

0:41.6

Which of those has more value that becomes an interesting question

0:44.1

But at the top we're talking about the guys who are going to have the ball all the time generally bring the ball up and

0:50.3

They're gonna control things for you generally. They're gonna be smaller

0:54.6

Yeah, a lot of this to me is determined by whether they guard point guards is in determining who is a point guard

1:01.4

I mean do you want to go on some rant about primary ball handler and point guard and all that or if we do we have we had enough of those

1:10.1

I think we've had enough of those but there is a there is a point there though that I will make separate from that

1:16.3

Which is that if your point guard sized player cannot run an offense

1:20.5

Then you need somebody else to do it and there absolutely are players around the league now James Harden LeBron James

1:27.5

Ben Simmons who primarily guard other positions who who can run it off?

1:32.0

I wouldn't I wouldn't think of Ben Simmons actually as being able to run an offense personally, but

1:38.2

Yeah, maybe if you have enough shooting around it, maybe yeah, exactly

1:42.3

There is a conception where that would yeah, and so but basically the idea that is if you can't do that

1:47.2

Then to me that's a pretty significant

1:49.2

Dimmera there's a parallel here a little bit with the centers that can't defend where if you can't do it

1:54.3

Somebody else is gonna have to do it and there aren't as many players at other sizes and other positions that can and so

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