All the lists are good. I'm not knocking anyone's lists. Its just board culture to focus on the little perceived flaws Also for fun '98-'99 Tim Hardaway Sam Cassell Damon Stoudamire '88-'89 Derek Harper Fat Lever Maurice Cheeks Muggsy Bogues Who'd who want handling the rock, guys named Magic, Fat, Doc, Muggsy, and Mo Cheeks? Or "Chris Paul"...
Totally agreed on Devin Harris. He's probably the least talented "star" player I can think of off the top of my head. That is one guy that wouldn't be doing much in 1992. Hell, he would be worse than both Robert Pack and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. One thing I find interesting is that from '96 when Iverson and Marbury entered the league up through '99 with Davis, Francis, and Terry up until I can't remember when, the panic and consternation was that there was no such thing as a "true" point guard anymore and that all the good young point guards coming in were primarily selfish scorers with no ability to run an offense. The phrase "he's one of the last pure point guards left" was commonly used for the likes of Jason Kidd as it was pretty much assumed that his was a dying or even extinct breed. Most had just simply come to accept that that was the way of the new NBA. So fast forward to today where the best point guards in the league in Paul, Williams, Nash, and Rose are pass-first and people salivate over prospects like Rubio for their passing, and I have to wonder, what exactly happened culturally(?) to return things back to their natural state? Naturally it is now being seen how much criticism guys liek Francis, Marbury, Davis, and Iverson took for their styles and how little overall success they had as a result of it, but that wouldn't seem to affect the supply side of it. Were that the case, you would have to hypothesize that sometime in the 2000's high school coaches consciously made an active effort to re-emphasize the fundamentals of the position upon observing the failures of the preceding generation. I don't sense that there was any type of active realization about this.
