As a point guard, you don’t really have to score. The only time you have to score is when you have to score.
I’m a lead-by-example guy but also vocal because I’m the point guard.
I played the two guard in college, and playing point guard is what I’ve done all my life.
There’s a lot of big guys who can play-make. We put labels like, ‘Oh, he’s a point guard, he’s a center.’ But sometimes your center can play-make for you and not just be the center, boxing out for rebounds and playing in the post.
Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people – the emotions and stuff like that.
As a point guard, I’m a coach on the floor. I know that.
In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.
The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say ‘amazingly’ because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.
I looked up to Magic Johnson a lot. He was a tall point guard who found his teammates and had a good time.
I played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don’t remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard – I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.
When a point guard is unselfish and thinking about the team, about winning first, it relates to the other players. So, I think that is my style of play.
It’s not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.
I am a point guard. It’s a job that I’m not scared of.
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