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Welcome to Volume I of our “Choose Your Own Adventure” starter series, where we explore the Milwaukee Bucks‘ options at each position. Read along, make your choice, and share your pick in the comments—if you dare!
As we all know, the Bucks are stacked—overflowing—with guards, but don’t necessarily have many point guards, which could be an issue for a bunch of guys who have no continuity with each other. This group in particular—with it being so young and new—will sorely need guys who can control the pace, get the team into the right sets, and not turn it over. There are interesting cases to be made both for and against basically all of the candidates in terms of how well they will be able to perform not only the role of a guard, but a point guard.
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Then again, you can make a case that the classic “point guard” is a position that either doesn’t exist or isn’t valued anymore, and that actually, it is better to have an abundance of combo guards who can pass-dribble-shoot; you know, the jack-of-all-trades type of guys. For this exercise, though, I will narrow this down to who I believe can perform “point guard duties” the best.
Go on to OPTION 1.
Rollins would be most people’s first choice for who should be the Bucks’ starting point guard on opening night—dude’s just a baller, man. While he definitely profiles as more of a combo guard, there is a certain equilibrium of competence in all facets of the game that I feel a player has to reach for them to start—he’s reached that and then some. To my earlier point, Rollins really typifies what the modern point guard has become in the NBA as a guy who, first and foremost, is a threat to shoot and score, which then opens up his ability to pass.
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Of course, the argument against Rollins starting at point guard is that he turns it over too much—2.6 per contest last season—but I think that comes with the territory considering how much of an offensive load he had/has to undertake. Like, don’t get me wrong, he has to clean it up, but if that’s his sole focus, it could inadvertently zap the rest of his game. And finally, you at least have to…
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