We shoot 39 free throws as the visiting team and lose. We really did not deserve to win that game.

Fun article, good link, worth reading.

Seems like ‘combo guard’ is used 2 ways. In Ziller’s sense, it is a point guard who can and thus does shoot reasonably often.

But it is also used in the sense of a ‘tweener’ layer who at best can (and often does) play the 1 or the 2, and at worst is a ‘shooting guard in a point guard’s body’ who is basically good enough to make it onto the court, but does better if that’s at the 1, where he’s less likely to be a defensive weakness, even though he doesn’t have all the strengths of a ‘pure’, classic point.

layer = player

I loved this article. My cousin and I actually made up a term for this kind of point guard about ten years ago. Because “combo guard” has the connotation of not being able to “run a team,” we coined the term “Focal Point” to refer to shoot-first or shoot-often point guards who yet were able to control the entire team’s offense. Isiah Thomas is probably the preeminent Focal Point that I’ve actually watched play. Iverson was a Focal Point for his first few years until he made the switch to full-time “undersized 2-Guard”. The fact that both types get labeled as combo guards is what obscures their actual play.