Sentences with phrase «point guard became»

At 22, the 6 - foot - 3 point guard became the league's youngest - ever MVP.

Not exact matches

The Grizzlies need help at back - up point guard and center, though power forward could also be a running concern as Darrell Arthur will become a restricted free agent on Sunday.

The Thunder have a decision to make with their star point guard, but he has to make his own decision first, and he must do so before he becomes a free agent next summer.

A funny thing happened to Scary Terry Rozier after injuries took Irving and Smart out of the lineup: he became a really solid NBA point guard.

The All - Star point guard has become one of the best floor generals in the league and his athleticism and court vision often create open looks that shouldn't be there considering the spacing issues that plague Washington.

D'Antoni announced that Harden will switch positions and become the team's full - time point guard this season, which will increase his already high usage.

At times Pippen handles the point and Stoudamire becomes a 5» 10» shooting guard.

Against Yale, it was said, Smith and Hodge had verbally badgered the All - America guard, Bubble Sturhahn, to the point that he became furious — and hence less effective.

The Rockets become much more difficult to stop, but their prized free - agent point guard now needs to adjust his game to make things work.

NEW YORK — There's a new dribble move that's become a weapon of choice for the league's top point guards.

«He was always the best point guard physically; now he's become the best point guard mentally.»

Oklahoma freshman point guard Trae Young has become the story of the season, leading the NCAA in points and assists with dazzling play that's drawn comparisons to Stephen Curry.

Then if the Bulls find a stud PG in the 2017 draft (it's a great point guard class), Moore can essentially move off the ball or become the third guard off the bench.

TJARKS: I love watching Steph shoot as much as the next person, but the point guard position has become a bit overrated in the modern NBA.

They go from the fast break to the half - court as smoothly as any team because Jason Williams knows what he's doing, and when his jumper is on, he becomes a truly great point guard.

They got younger and more athletic in key places (Hood, Nance), they now have a capable starting point guard (Hill), they have a scorer off the bench who's a healthier version of the seventh man Isaiah Thomas should've been (Clarkson), and the rest of the NBA season just became a lot more interesting.

Ohio grad transfer point guard Jaaron Simmons will officially become Wolverine in the near future.

Already a polished star, Brooklyn hoops phenom Sebastian Telfair is set to become the first point guard to jump from high school to the NBA

It's only a matter of time before Kyrie Irving becomes a tier 1 fantasy point guard.

SHEILA WAGNER PEEKSKILL, N.Y. Sheila, a 5» 6» senior guard at Peekskill High, amassed a career total of 2,476 points to become New York State's alltime girls» basketball scoring leader.

That means he can probably only defend point guards and undersized shooting guards without becoming a liability on that end of the floor.

Roberts scored all of his team - high 19 points in the second and third quarters as McCall scored 18 and Croney — a scrappy guard who has become a viable 3 - point threat for Ridgeview — added 16.

Zavier Simpson proved he's becoming one of the best point guards in the country as he racked up 6 steals, 5 assists...

If Wall can find a way to recapture the energy that makes him one of the league's most exciting point guards, this series becomes much more interesting.

Because the game has become so specialized since Cousy's day, giving us the high - post center, the low - post center, power forwards, small forwards, big guards, little guards, shot - blockers, intimidators, rebounding specialists, steal specialists, defensive specialists, and let's all welcome — trumpets, please — the three - point field - goal specialist, these fancy passers needed a job description, too.

Brezovar, a senior guard at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, averaged 35.8 points a game for the Raiders and became the state's first college player to score 1,000 points in a season.

I could see next year going one of two directions for Moss — either he becomes a much better player as he gets more room to operate with more guards / 3 - point shooting or he falls off a cliff with other players emerging with better consistency.

If Hinrich is unable to play, Nate Robinson will likely get the start at point guard with Marquise Teague becoming the top backup off the bench.

Already the buzz about him around the league is becoming a roar: Rookie point guard Jason Williams of the Sacramento Kings is a star in the making.

He handles the ball like the point guard, he beats up his opponents with the dribble on the regular occasions, there is no need for him to speed up, that's not his game, if he try that he will become turnover prone player, he's adjusting the game up to his own speed, sometimes when he sees advantages he can be even quicker, how many centers can run the fast break with the ball, run over the entire Clipper defense and throw the perfect alley op pass to Millsap for the dunk??? Nothing wrong with his handle and speed, I don't agree with you at all about improvement of his game.

On defense, he immediately becomes the Cavs» best point guard defender this decade.

Donning Roma's revolutionary skin - tight Kappa - crafted jersey, the team's shape looked beautifully fluid and both their # 50million worth of new players coupled with some of the old guard — who really stepped up and became genuine world beaters — the side won the title by two points.

Over the years we've become strangely accustomed to AI in stealth games that seems to exist solely to ignore everything suspicious up to the point where they actually get punched or shot at, guards with rigid patrol patterns and reactions we can predict with unnerving accuracy.

Speaking of which I encountered several moments when the game became rather confused with its contextual actions, at one point resulting in Snake leaping over a guard rail and falling nearly twenty feet, landing in front of a slightly shocked guard.

Although the game wants you to utilize stealth at times, ensuring you remain unseen by hiding bodies and answering radios from dead guards so no one becomes the wiser, the action will eventually boil down to you and your team shooting your way to an extraction point.

After the 20 minute point, many people start to become comfortable and let their guard down.