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I wrote this article last night. It should be going on the front page sometime today.

Step Aside Nash, Chris Paul is the NBA's Best Point Guard



Chris Paul is 22 years old and a little more than halfway through his third season in the NBA. If you were to take a trip to Paul's house and look through his trophy case, you'd most likely find his Rookie of the Year award, an NBA 2K8 cover, and several honors from his college days at Wake Forest. He has played in 195 regular season games, one All-Star game, and zero playoff games since being draft by New Orleans in 2005.

Steve Nash is 34 years old and a little more than halfway through his twelfth season in the NBA. If you were to take a trip to Nash's house and look through his NBA trophy case, you'd most likely find his two Most Valuable Player awards, the Time magazine article that lists him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Canada's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada, and several different Canadian Athlete of the Year awards. He has played in 835 regular season games, six All-Star games, and 97 playoff games since being drafted by Phoenix in 1996.

Judging by all of this information, which player do you think should have been intimidated going into Wednesday night's battle between the Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Hornets?

Everyone who said Chris Paul, try changing your answer.

The young guard has had Steve Nash's number all season long

couple typos you might want to fix, but a good read.

oh, and might I suggest this picture instead?

Thanks for the picture!

In your first paragraph, draft ---> drafted

"What Paul is going at age 22 is incredible" ---> doing

Is CP the only guard in the league to average 20/10?

Nice article btw.

Copperhead wrote:Is CP the only guard in the league to average 20/10?

Right now? Yes. Ever? No. I think Terrell Brandon was the last to do it.

20+ points/10+ assists anyways.

2poor wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Right now? Yes. Ever? No. I think Terrell Brandon was the last to do it.

20+ points/10+ assists anyways.

Yeah, I meant RIGHT NOW.

Copperhead wrote:Yeah, I meant RIGHT NOW.

RIGHT NOW like, Chris Paul is the best PG in the NBA RIGHT NOW?

He's good, I just want him to beat up on Deron every now and then to shut up the Jazz haters.

7-1

Tonight will be a great.

8-1

Jazz by 12

hurray for insecure Jazz fans.

Steve Nash hahahah who cares? He can't even get to the NBA Finals. Tony Parker is probably laughing at every PG in the NBA.

idajazz wrote:7-1

Tonight will be a great.

8-1

Jazz by 12

Call them crazy, call them insecure, but Jazz fans know that the above stat drives Hornets fans crazy.

Not really, the Jazz are just another team to us, we don't really care about them at all to be honest, which is why you don't see any of us over on the Jazz board.

NO-KG-AI wrote:Not really, the Jazz are just another team to us, we don't really care about them at all to be honest, which is why you don't see any of us over on the Jazz board.

Not true... 2poor makes an excellent job of coming into our board, and persistently behaving like a troll. Although he is not being a troll, he is just wrong about certain things like Denver. I agree though, it is of bad taste to come here and bash the host fans. Sorry... not all fans are jerks.

However you must say it... something tickles in your belly when you think of Williams vs. Paul. I mean, number 3 and number 4... attached by the umbilical cord, always to prove the one another better. Plus the Utah Jazz used to be New Orleans Jazz... there must be a little sumeth'n sumeth'n

I don't troll Duiz. You've proven time and time again that you don't fully understand the concept of trolling and have been called out multiple times by members on your own board for improperly interpreting the nature of my posts.

Don't bring me into your ignorant concoction.

Jazz fans brought it up, in a very classless way, always trying to convince/troll us of how much better Deron is blah blah blah. Now we hate the Jazz because they just go on and on about Williams and Paul.

So now it has become somewhat of a rivalry.

luciano-davidwesley wrote:Jazz fans brought it up, in a very classless way, always trying to convince/troll us of how much better Deron is blah blah blah. Now we hate the Jazz because they just go on and on about Williams and Paul.

So now it has become somewhat of a rivalry.

The media started the rivalry by saying that the Jazz made a terrible decision by passing on Chris Paul. I'm not going to say Williams is better, nor Paul, just that they are playing way different roles, and both are during terrific on each other's teams. Would I trade Williams for Paul? No, and neither would most Jazz and Hornet fans, as they know they have the best PG for each team's system.

I don't hate the Hornets... I love Chris Paul... and I do think he is better than Steve Nash... Honestly, Baron Davis, Deron Williams and specially Chris Paul have gone past him this year... They all can play defense and their games are completely flourishing... and they are making their crappy teams better. I must say that Byron Scott and Chris Paul have definetly made a system in which it works for Chris Paul, where they can play organized scrambles, and leave the freedom for Paul to frigging play.

Deron Williams why I do give him a pad on the back unlike Paul has been because Jazz play slower pace, and he is only around number behind many stats with the exception of steals. Deron is very underated as a floor leader too, you saw the game last night he brought the Jazz from 27 down to 4... Now you gotta accept it, that is impressive.

HOWEVER! Here is why I must say that, as much as it hurts me as a Jazz fan to say, Chris Paul is the MVP and the best point guard in the NBA today, because of his efficiency. Man, look at those turnover numbers. My Achilles heel with Deron is his turnover hunger.

But Paul... man... he is as clear as his arms from tattoos, and that I absolutely love from the man.

Chris Paul 4.26 AST/TO
Deron Williams 2.78 AST/TO

Only Jose Calderon has surpassed his numbers slightly this season, but the impact of Chris Paul on the Hornets in the Western Conference compared to Calderon's impact to the Raptors in the Eastern Conference do not even put them in the same plateau. Something that would show a little bit more the impact... from the people who own the top 5 APG...

Jose Calderon 1.6 TOPG
Chris Paul 2.5 TOPG
Deron Williams 3.5 TOPG
Jason Kidd 3.7 TOPG
Steve Nash 3.9 TOPG

The fact that Chris Paul averages 10.8 APG and 2.5 TOPG is so freaking efficient. It hard to be a swiss army knife and be efficient. I gotta give it to Paul.

Duiz, appreciate those words, although, the pace discrepancy, as pointed out various times before actually shows that the Hornets play at a slower pace than the Jazz