Steve Nash says John Stockton is greatest PG of all time

[tsherkin]

I know Karl Malone had serious issues and Stockton is an anti-vaccer but do you really want to be calling them "the S&M gang?"

I spit out my drink, pen. Thank you for that; I had to clean my monitor

[RCM88x]

I get it, he probably doesn't consider Magic, Curry, West, Oscar true PGs in the same sense. And CP3 is still playing (and was about a decade+ younger than Nash) so he's also not considered.

So yes "Stockton is the greatest PG of all time"*****

[tsherkin]

I get it, he probably doesn't consider Magic, Curry, West, Oscar true PGs in the same sense.

That's an angle I hadn't considered, actually, good thought!

[falcolombardi]

Even if we restrict it to "traditional" (a pretty useless distinction) smaller sized point guards i dont see how he compares well to chris paul, who is pretty damn ahead as a scorer while turning the ball over less or steve nash himself (a much superior scorer with much more ability to create easy buckets)

His playmaking value is not a turnover ball protection outlier the way paul is or as valuable in the kind of advantages created as nash, feels like longevity/durability + raw assist total are doing a lot of heavy lifting with him

Had the peaks project not gone to die to the same graveyard as the epstein list i dont even know if he would make my top 50 for peaks

[penbeast0]

I get it, he probably doesn't consider Magic, Curry, West, Oscar true PGs in the same sense. And CP3 is still playing (and was about a decade+ younger than Nash) so he's also not considered.

So yes "Stockton is the greatest PG of all time"*****

Or, he thinks that in terms of the skillset and mental mind set, Stockton was better at the point guard skills than they were (ignoring issues like volume scoring, rebounding, etc.). I think everyone considers Oscar a PG, Magic a PG even if he was used as a SG early on, West the same but not as universally accepted, probably even Curry but they all were much more scoring focused.