Point guards: Who's in your (top) five?
Considering all the talk this summer about Team USA teammates Deron Williams and Chris Paul emerging as the top two point guards in the nation, if not the NBA, I found some player power rankings on a major online sports Web site to be interesting.
Not surprisingly, Paul came out on top of the CBSSports.com rankings. The New Orleans guard is a popular pick as the league’s premier point guard nowadays.
What was surprising, however, was where the guy who often dominates Paul in head-to-head match-ups was placed.
Williams, I figured, would be No. 2 if for no other reason than all the glowing Redeem Team pub he got. But he wasn’t. And he didn’t come in third, either. According to these rankings, Williams is the NBA’s fourth-best playmaker behind Phoenix’s Steve Nash (No. 2) and Washington’s Gilbert Arenas (No. 3). San Antonio’s Tony Parker came in fifth.
That’s a pretty solid top five — some could make arguments for the likes of Baron Davis or Chauncey Billups, maybe even Monta “Moped” Ellis, or Jason Kidd if you’re Coach K — but the order is definitely debatable.
Or is it? Who’s in your Top Five point guards?
Before you answer that, CBSSports.com also put some Jazz guys in the rankings for other positions: No. 6 Carlos Boozer, power forward; No. 18, Mehmet Okur, centers; and No. 16 Andrei Kirilenko, small forwards. None of Utah’s 17 shooting guards made the top 20 rankings for that position.


