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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5757369, member: 722"]
There are two theories about what makes a combo guard. Many people will sometimes define a combo guard as a player that can play both point guard and shooting guard.

However, usually, by calling them a combo guard what they really mean is that they aren't good enough at point guard to play that as their primary position… But they don't score well enough to be a true shooting guard either. Sometimes it means that a really good shooting guard can play point guard in a pinch, but you don't want them as your starter.

Almost always, it comes back to this: you want a real point guard running your offense. Starting two combo guards is a little bit like having two quarterbacks… What it really means is you don't have any.

If you had a point guard, like a Johnny Flynn, who happened to be a very good point guard, but also would be your best scorer, you don't call him a combo guard just because he's great at scoring. That title will be reserved for the Joe Girards of the world, forced to play point guard when it's not really their position.

We've mostly done that the last 12 years, usually because we failed to recruit an actual point guard that was good (as [USER=40]RF2044[/USER] pointed out above).
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