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OT: Favorite NBA Guard Of All Time

Sidney Moncrief. He was a scorer, but he also averaged over 5 rpg for 5 straight years from the guard position, and is considered one of if not the best defensive guard from his era. Knee problems finally wore him down. I suspect that if he had played 10 years later the scope technology would have been good enough to stretch out his prime another year or two and make him a first ballot Hall of Famer. He is probably the best player not in the Hall of Fame.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Sidney Moncrief. He was a scorer, but he also averaged over 5 rpg for 5 straight years from the guard position, and is considered one of if not the best defensive guard from his era. Knee problems finally wore him down. I suspect that if he had played 10 years later the scope technology would have been good enough to stretch out his prime another year or two and make him a first ballot Hall of Famer. He is probably the best player not in the Hall of Fame.
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Best known for a basket he made when it bounced off his head?

Was a big fan of Moncrief. Same thing about knee injuries for Andrew Toney. He had one or two injuries and boom, career was over.
 
ITT: People who watched the NBA before UConn got good and then switched over to being UConn fans during the Dream season.
 
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mauconnfan said:
Favorite team C’s so Jo Jo White.

Other than a Celtic (although he played there too) Tiny Archibald.
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No kidding:
I scanned the answers, formed a mental picture for each name, and noted who I've never watched much because of shifting from NBA since UCONN flipped in the 90s.

Then I embraced the topic as written - "favorite" not "best."

If you read it that way, there's a case to be made for everyone appreciating and Liking @nelsonmuntz 's post. I did.

When has that happened?

It made me wanted to point that out and say there are really no wrong answers, unless (as with the Sheep Trivia thread) a factually incorrect answer is given. My example of such was going to be a fictional error named Archie Tinybald.
Timing.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Best known for a basket he made when it bounced off his head?

Was a big fan of Moncrief. Same thing about knee injuries for Andrew Toney. He had one or two injuries and boom, career was over.
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Sidney Moncrief, Ron Brewer, Marvin Delph. Univ of Arkansas, Best short college basketball team of all time. Three jumping jacks, all three only 6'4.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Best known for a basket he made when it bounced off his head?

Was a big fan of Moncrief. Same thing about knee injuries for Andrew Toney. He had one or two injuries and boom, career was over.
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I thought I read a quote one time by Michael Jordan where he said that Sidney Moncrief was the best defender he ever played against, but I can't find it now.

His Bucks teams were always the second or third best in the East behind the Celtics and the 76ers, so he never made the NBA Finals.
 
I really enjoyed Gary Payton, the “Glove”. He could really control the game on both ends and even gave MJ problems at times. Not to mentioned I had the “Glove” poster hanging up in my bedroom as a kid.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I thought I read a quote one time by Michael Jordan where he said that Sidney Moncrief was the best defender he ever played against, but I can't find it now.

His Bucks teams were always the second or third best in the East behind the Celtics and the 76ers, so he never made the NBA Finals.
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Was a big fan of him and those Bucks teams.
 
An "if' name was Michael Ray Richardson of NY Knicks. The 'if' is for well known reasons.
But even the legendary Magic recognized him as one of the best opponents he ever played against.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Was a big fan of him and those Bucks teams.
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They made 3 of 4 Eastern Conference finals between 1983 and 1986, and they were good from about 1981 to 1987.

They were missing a point guard. The early Moncrief teams had Marques Johnson and Junior Bridgeman on the wings, and a past-his-prime Bob Lanier in the post, but the best point guard they had was a mediocre Quinn Buckner. The mid-80's Bucks teams had Terry Cummings in the post, who was really good in his prime, and Pressey and Ricky Pierce on the wings, but were playing Moncrief out of position at point. If they just had an above average point guard they would have made an NBA Finals or two. They also had the bad luck of having their best team, in the 1985-1986 season, run right into a Celtics team that was one of the best of all time.
 
Fat Lever - he would have been a fantasy superstar if there was fantasy basketball back then. Filled up the stat sheet.

I know some of his big stats were because of Doug Moe's wacky style in Denver, but he was a good player regardless, and he did not have a lot of talent around him by the mid-80's.
 
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Kembacity said:
How is this even a thread?

Top 5 NBA guards all time: Kemba, Kemba, Kemba, Kemba and Kemba... because he SPITS hot fire
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1)Kemba
2)Cardiac Kemba
3)Kemba Walker
4)Walker, Kemba
5)Shabazz Napier
 
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1. Manu
2. Kobe

Although sometimes it’s reversed. Curry and Nash are a distant third and fourth, with Jeremy Lin coming in at fifth. (Non Uconn players)
 
Since Jason Williams was said a few times, I'll go with Rajon Rondo. Basketball IQ is through the roof, incredible instincts for the game, but attitude held him back. To use a more common phrase from the soccer realm, I'd call him a troubled genius
 
One has a tendency to sentimentalize things from childhood which in my case was watching Oscar glide around on black and white tv. If you Youtube him he doesn’t seem to start and stop but he is in perpetual smooth motion no matter what he does. Don’t see dunking because wasn’t it banned for awhile? The ball faking to get his shot when guarded closely is art.
 
Bob Cousy.

As a kid in the 60s, every time someone made a sensational play you would hear, "Who do you think you are, Bob Cousy?"

 
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nelsonmuntz said:
They made 3 of 4 Eastern Conference finals between 1983 and 1986, and they were good from about 1981 to 1987.

They were missing a point guard. The early Moncrief teams had Marques Johnson and Junior Bridgeman on the wings, and a past-his-prime Bob Lanier in the post, but the best point guard they had was a mediocre Quinn Buckner. The mid-80's Bucks teams had Terry Cummings in the post, who was really good in his prime, and Pressey and Ricky Pierce on the wings, but were playing Moncrief out of position at point. If they just had an above average point guard they would have made an NBA Finals or two. They also had the bad luck of having their best team, in the 1985-1986 season, run right into a Celtics team that was one of the best of all time.
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True - I grew up just south of Milwaukee so I followed the Bucks religiously at that age (my early teen years). So disappointed they could never get over the hump.
 
Throwing out Huskies/Celtics I grew up wanting to be Steve Francis and Vince Carter.
 
UC313 said:
John Starks was a certified badass. That dunk over Ho Grant with MJ trying to help on the backside ....
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Had lunch next to John Starks at Mr. Leo's (now closed) in NYC and chatted with him briefly. Seemed like a pretty nice guy. He was with the most beautiful woman in the world so he gets points for that.
But favorite has to be MJ.
 
The man Red Auerbach called the greatest Celtic of all time … Dennis Johnson. (That was back when being a Celtic meant something)
 
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