And from NBA.com article on the history of the point-forward position:
Paul Pressey
According to NBA legend, Milwaukee coach Don Nelson was the mad scientist who experimented with the "point forward" role and Paul Pressey was his monster. Pressey, a 6-foot-5 swingman from Tulsa with a pterodactyl wingspan, was a 1982 first-round pick who didn't fit naturally into a Bucks rotation that already had Marques Johnson, Sidney Moncrief, Brian Winters and Junior Bridgeman as skill players. Enter Harris, between coaching jobs and by that point a consultant to his pal Nelson in Milwaukee. "I remember it clearly," Harris said. "We were at a meeting at the American Club in Lake Geneva (Wis.), and Nellie said, 'I've got Pressey and he's got to play forward, but he's not really a forward. He can pass. He can see over people. But I don't know what to do with him.' I said, 'Well, you could use him as a point forward like I did with Robert Reid.'
"Nellie just jumped all over that," Harris said. "He loved it and that's the way it was from then on. Nellie was not shy and he talked a lot about it, so he gets credit for it. But Tom Nissalke started it, I named it and Nellie popularized it. That's the honest truth." Pressey's point-forward duties fully blossomed in 1984-85. His assists more than doubled from 252 to 543, then to 623 in 1985-86 when he averaged 7.8 setting up Moncrief, Terry Cummings, Ricky Pierce and titular point guard Craig Hodges. In a Nov. 6, 1984 story in the old Milwaukee Journal, Nelson said: "We gave it a name really to help give some identity to what Press is trying to do for us."
"I loved it," said Pressey, now an assistant on Byron Scott's Cleveland staff. "Nellie put the ball in my hand and he trusted that I was going to do the right thing as far as getting the ball to our scorers. It went over well with the other guys because they knew I wasn't going to be taking a whole lot of shots. I was going to be a playmaker. They were going to get their shots, so they were all for that." Harris coached Pressey in his last three Milwaukee seasons but Jay Humphries and Alvin Robertson passed him as the Bucks' assist leader in 1989-90. He was traded that summer to San Antonio, where Larry Brown had Rod Strickland at the point and used Pressey more conventionally.
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/steve_aschburner/12/15/point-forward/index.html
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