NBA Player Rankings: Point Guards

Continuing my positional player rankings, here are my top 10 point guards. Again, feel free to comment and debate. Check out this link from our Bloguin brothers who did their top 10 point guards last week.

10. Devin Harris

Harris sometimes gets forgotten because he's on a bad team that nobody cares about. He is really good, and if he got more exposure he would get the credit he deserves. He is ridiculously fast, and his speed alone makes him a nightmare to guard. Steadily, his outside shot has improved, which is making him even more dangerous.

He has the tools (long arms, great foot speed) to be a great defender if he will commit to it. He also needs to improve on knowing when to score and when to distribute the ball, a skill that all great PGs are able to master.

9. Jason Kidd

This might not be a popular pick. A lot of people have the opinion that Kidd is washed up.

He obviously isn't what he used to be, but as a pure PG he still runs a team as well as anyone in the league. Kidd doesn't have fabulous stats anymore like when he was a young gun, but interestingly enough the game is not played on paper.

Jason Kidd makes his team better, plain and simple. And, although it is still painful to watch him shoot, his long-ball has actually become pretty consistent and he's been shooting it around the 40 percent mark. I'm not sure I'd choose anyone else in the league to run my fast break.

8. Gilbert Arenas

I guess Arena is technically a PG, although you wouldn't know it by the way he plays. He doesn't seem to have an interest in getting his teammates involved.

I really don't like his selfish game or his attitude, but I have to put him on the list because he can score with the best of them. Much like Kobe and LeBron, if Arenas gets on a roll there's not much the other team can do about it.

7. Derrick Rose

Rose has all the tools to be a fantastic PG in the NBA. He understands the game much better than most players his age and he seems to have a great work ethic.

I think if he continues to work hard, he will move up this list very fast. He finishes very well at the rim and has superb court vision, something that can't be taught. He needs to improve his outside shot and also improve defensively in order to take it to the next level.

6. Rajon Rondo

Rondo gets a lot of praise and attention because he gets exposure on one of the best teams in the league. His game is perfect for his situation, he plays outstanding defense, doesn't demand a lot of shots, and distributes the ball well to the Hall of Famers around him.

Some people will think he deserves to be higher on the list, but I believe that Rondo benefits greatly from having a really good team around him. He is never the focus of the other team's defensive game-plan, like some other PGs are, and that makes life much easier for him.

I also don't like that fact that he is, to put it nicely, a terrible outside shooter. If he could develop anything that resembled a jump shot he would be unstoppable offensively. He is also a very poor free throw shooter, which makes him a liability at the end of close games.

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