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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 1038767, member: 874"]
A lot of PG's had 2 qualities.  Isaiah Thomas had two qualities, does that mean he wasn't a point guard?  What I said about Payton was that he often guarded the other team's 2 guard, so your weak attempt at twisting what I said has failed.

You attempted to using shooting percentage as an indicator that Stockton was a superior scorer to Payton.  I pointed out a player with an even lower shooting percentage that anyone that has ever watched, coached, or played basketball would say is one of the best scorers off all time, to prove that shooting percentage is not as significant as you want to make it.

Karl Malone was an elite scorer.  Yes, he and Stockton played well off of each other, but your suggestion that he would have scored significantly fewer points is exaggerated and impossible to prove.  It's not as if Stockton was setting him up for dunks all of the time.  How many of his points came from midrange jumpers?  I don't know the numbers, but it was a lot.  So another question that could be raised is, how many of Stockton's assists came from Malone hitting 19 foot jumpers?  Payton never played with anyone as good as Malone in his prime.  Who's to say Payton didn't have better overall talent?  Everyone that has ever watched a basketball game.

I'll put it bold this time so that maybe you'll understand it.  [B]I said before that Stockton was the better overall player.  My argument all along is that the gap isn't as significant as you say.[/B][URL='http://syracusefan.com/#syracuse-athletics.1'][/URL]
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