What's Up with Teams not Playing Point Guards Anymore?

[Warspite]

With the lax ballhandling rules they are making the traditional PG obsolete.

Now add a top 10 all time PG to any team and he will wreck this league. Tiny/Isiah Thomas/Nash/KJ and Fat Lever would slash these defenses to ribbons.

[Calvin Klein]

Suns are just incompetent. Booker at point never worked but they insist on it. And they are wasting his prime.

[kcktiny]

Tiny/Isiah Thomas/Nash/KJ and Fat Lever would slash these defenses to ribbons.

Nice to see the Fat Lever nod.

Prime Lever probably the best PG most never heard of.

[The Rainmaker]

Teams like Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and even the Lakers are opting out of playing point guards - is there a reason for this?

Cooper Flagg, Amen Thompson, Devin Booker, and even Luka Doncic aren't PGs. Why are they playing that position then?

Amen Thompson was literally drafted as a PG.
https://www.espn.com/nba/draft/rounds/_/season/2023

It's not a new position that he's playing. He was literally playing position before he was in the NBA.

[Xanadu]

Teams like Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and even the Lakers are opting out of playing point guards - is there a reason for this?

Cooper Flagg, Amen Thompson, Devin Booker, and even Luka Doncic aren't PGs. Why are they playing that position then?

Kidd often played Giannis at PG for his development, he's doing the same thing with Flagg.

Kidd played Giannis at PG for a dozen games at the end of his third season and otherwise had absolute spanners like Brandon Knight and Michael Carter Williams dominating the ball while Giannis watched off ball. Kidd has the best PR this side of Doc Rivers covering for his dip ****.

I know I don't understand how he gets away with it. Seriously feel like he is the going to be the new doc rivers. While being even worse as human being. God as Bucks fan I thought we would never have to deal with this type of coach again. They both never accept fault or admit mistakes. Both put there ego and personality above the team as while. Drives me bat **** especially since they can't even coach xs and os.

[Xanadu]

Teams like Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and even the Lakers are opting out of playing point guards - is there a reason for this?

Cooper Flagg, Amen Thompson, Devin Booker, and even Luka Doncic aren't PGs. Why are they playing that position then?

Kidd often played Giannis at PG for his development, he's doing the same thing with Flagg.

Kidd played Giannis at PG for a dozen games at the end of his third season and otherwise had absolute spanners like Brandon Knight and Michael Carter Williams dominating the ball while Giannis watched off ball. Kidd has the best PR this side of Doc Rivers covering for his dip ****.

I know I don't understand how he gets away with it. Seriously feel like he is the going to be the new doc rivers. While being even worse as human being. God as Bucks fan I thought we would never have to deal with this type of coach again. They both never accept fault or admit mistakes. Both put there ego and personality above the team as while. Drives me bat **** especially since they can't even coach xs and os.

[JN61]

You don't need PG when you just chuck out bricks all night long.

[shrink]

I feel like in ten years, talk about positions will become obsolete, and “point guards” Will be the first to go.

As the Luka debate shows, players often don’t fit into one specific positional archetype - it’s usually an advantage if they don’t.