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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Point Guard Rankings 2019

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Our final position rankings of the 2018-19 season leads to a lot of intrigue as some familiar faces have had down years and younger options are the position are on the way up. With host Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) and Danny Leroux (@DannyLeroux)....

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0:00.0

Man, a lot of research this week, Danny and I both spent a few hours doing our point guard

0:05.8

rankings here.

0:07.0

We got to do our awards later this week as well.

0:10.6

So lots of pouring over stats and film and our own preconceived notions that will never

0:16.8

change before coming up with these rankings.

0:20.2

So why don't we get started here at anything of particular note that you wanted to get

0:26.0

into beforehand here today?

0:28.5

Click run through of the basic criteria it is about who you would want to have theoretically.

0:33.5

Let's say there was an MBA season starting right now like it's October 17th or whatever

0:38.0

that would be season and a playoffs who you would want most for that that means it is

0:41.6

not a future rankings beyond that future.

0:45.0

And if players are in the same tier that means we see them as very close to each other.

0:50.6

It is more like splitting hairs and then if they are in separate tiers then there is a

0:53.8

more material difference between them and we will explain why a player is or is not.

0:59.5

Yeah, when we are talking about point guards generally if we put someone in the shooting

1:03.4

guard rankings and they are not going to be a point guard, I think a lot of it to me comes

1:08.1

down to who you have to guard.

1:10.0

Some of these players are not going to be guys who necessarily are playing on the ball

1:13.8

especially as you get into some of the back ups but they just need to guard the opposing

1:17.7

point guard and so that's where they get shoehorned in.

1:20.2

But generally you are looking at players who can run a pick and roll, bring the ball

1:24.6

up the court, have a pretty decent passing vision.

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