Going Miles to make a point

DENVER ‘ Odds are that C.J. Miles doesn’t play the point for more than a play or two or three in any regular-season NBA game over the next seven months or so.
But watching him do just in Wednesday’s overtime exhibition loss at Denver, and going at it with Nugget subs Smush Parker and Matten Cleaves, was entertaining nonetheless.
And it begs the question: Has Miles missed his calling?
The Jazz swingman did, after all, play point at Skyline High in Dallas, from which the Jazz drafted him straight into the NBA back in 2005. And he had a ball doing it, too.
‘I saw everything,” he recalled. ‘I was like 6-6, so coming down the floor I had some games where I wouldn’t take but five shots. I just passed the ball the whole game.”
Now in his fourth NBA season, Miles ‘ fighting for the Jazz’s starting shooting guard spot ‘ still is just 21 years old.
Enough time still to turn him into a full-time point? If the Jazz thought so, they surely would have done it by now. Why haven’t they?
You make the call.

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