Wrong!!
We have a guy coming next year, Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn ranked at 50 rivals/48 by 247 composite
Boiler Up!
is he a true PG ? that's my entire point. Purdue attracks a lot of top 50 players. Purdue attracks a lot of shooters and big men and combo guards. i will not argue that Lawhorn is not talented. he's very talented. but when you think of him, who would compare him to? Would you compare him to a Bruce Parkinson, Quin Buckner, Sichting? or woul you compare him to Edwards and ivey? Is he a shooter/combo guard ? is he really a true point guard? Carsen Edwards was listed on the recruiting sites as a PG, but Carsen was more of a shooter/combo guard than point guard.
my point the ast 5 years, is that the top 4/5 star true PGs seem to be avoiding Purdue. Admittedly, there are very few pure point guards to begin with. most high school and AAU guards have the belief to get a scholarship, you need to be a shooter and score points. very few prospects today focus on being a floor general, distributing the ball and controling the tempo.
i wasn't really sold on Pack. he seemed more like another ccombo guard than an actual PG.
I guess true Pgs no longer exist in today's basketball. teams sign 2 combo guards / shooters and hope they can learn point guard skills along the way. I'll admit this is not only a purdue problem. many other elite basketball teams don't have elite point guards to control their team. I look at michigan. they have a lot of talent. but they don't seem to have a true point guard that is their floor general. and because of that, their talented team is rather inconsistent. the same case could be made for Duke, UK and Gonzaga. they have a lot of talent. But i don't see a guy like Dwayne Wade or Bobby hurley to lead them.
Steve Alford and Kyle Macy were great players. but they were more of a shooter than point guard. I look at the current Bucks and Golden State. I consider Holiday as a point guard. I consider curry as a guard.
Admittedly, I'm a very critical person. i'm not impressed easily. I thought Eastern could be that elusive elite PG. but........... part of my criteria for a great PG is that player must be able to hit free throws. Because at the end of a game, you want your PG to have the ball and control the game, and that means he will be fouled and he has to be able to hit clutch free throws. making clutch free throws was not one of Eastern's fortes.
soooooooo, who was out there that was an elite PG that painter missed out on? I don't know. and who is currently out there that is a genuine point guard ? i don't know that either. I see a lot of 5 star guards that score over 20 points a game and are labeled in recruiting services as point guards. but to me, the majority of them are combo guards.
Can a combo guard or shooter become a great pg? Does my definition of what is a true PG even exist anymore ?? i look at the bucks and I look at the lakers. in the NBA, it's the players who win games. it's the players who call the plays. the lakers had a very highly paid player playing point guard this year. but was he a true point guard? or was he the current definition of what a PG is today?