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The NBA Midseason Rankings- Shooting Guards

ByKohl Rast|
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As we continue the NBA Midseason ranks, we stop today on shooting guards. There is a big difference in what constitutes a shooting guard, but here is each team’s starting shooting guard, ranked.

The NBA has become such an interesting game over the last few years. Gone are the days where your height and speed determined your position, now all that matters is your skillset and your willingness to play wherever coach can fit you in.

The shooting guard may be the most obvious position for this, as players who would normally be labeled as point guards have become dominant scorers and excellent shooting guards that can be relied on. Just another sign that if you don’t keep up with the latest trends of the NBA, it just might pass you by.

While ranking the NBA’s starting shooting guards, I realized that it was significantly easier than ranking the point guards. There are probably a lot of reasons for this, but the obvious one to me was that point guards do a lot. They score, they facilitate, and they generally have to be able to shoot the three-pointer.

With shooting guards, the rankings are based mostly on defense (which is hard to represent statistically), and scoring ability. The way they score is less important than the point guard position, as all they really need to do is get the ball through the hoop.

With that understanding, I give you the NBA’s starting shooting guards ranked from worst to first.

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