What is a COMBO GUARD?

Question

Is it like.. you play the 2 guard but you can also run the offense & you can also bring shooting and scoring? basically a shooting guard trapped in a point guard's body?

is allen iverson a combo guard? does he play point or the 2 guard??

Answer 1

Almost John. What you are describing is what we call a tweener. A combo guard is a guard who has a real position (A true point or shooting guard) but can also play other guard position effectively. Allen Iverson is a tweener the best tweener ever but still a tweener. Rondo is developing into a combo guard. D. Wade is a combo guard, D. Will is a combo guard. Tyreke is a combo guard, Curry is a combo guard, Paul is a combo guard. Dennis Johnson was the perfect example of a combo guard. Body size has nothing to do with it. When we begin to question body size it means the guy's skill set and size don't match his ideal position and won't allow him to play the position without his size creating match-up problems. Ben Gordon, Monty Ellis, Allen Iverson, Flip Murry, Jamal Crawford, Byron Scott. Iverson was such a unique case because of his wingspan and hand size his arms were so long when he extended he was the same size as a 6'4" or 6'5" guy which allowed him to play a pure 2 most of his career.



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Answer 2

By definition, a combo guard is a guard who can run an offense and shoot very well. But now, the most common combo guards are shooting guards who are too short to play shooting guard so they are forced to be point guards. Prime examples are Delonte West, Iverson in his later years, and Lou Williams.



Iverson used to play as a shooting guard, he was moved to the point guard position when he was traded to Denver.

Answer 3

A combo guard is a guy who has both the characteristics of a point guard (I.E. running the offense, leading the team in assists, bringing the ball up) and also having the characteristics of a shooting guard.



Examples:

Dwyane Wade, Gilbert Arenas, Allen Iverson, Tyreke Evans, Mo Williams, etc.



It can also be a guy who basically has the characteristics of a shooting guard, but is under 6'3"

Answer 4

It depends on the team if you have someone like Lebron James it would not be smart to be a combo guard, but if you have someone like Kwame Brown be the 2nd best option on the team you might want to shoot the ball, just if the team has good scorers who if they can get set up good and score if you set them up then pass first is better but if your team is just plain horrible on offense you would have to take matters into your on hands, My preferable PG is neither i like someone like Chris Paul who passes for the first half and gets about 10 assist somehow while scoring 11 points in the 4th so Chris Paul is a great example of a balanced PG just like Lebron is a balanced SF, Hope this answers your question, Oh and a coach would love any player who can help the team best way possible.

Answer 5

You have the jist of it down, its any player with a body type that either limits their ability to play one of hte positions full time or puts them right in between the typical criteria for both positions. A combo guard is generally capable of both scoring and passing/running hte offense, and like a point forward, is often a star scorer who has the ball in his hands more than is generally usual for a player who is not a pure point guard because he is a. his teams best player, b. an above average distributor c. draws alot of defensive attention, getting other guys open.

Anyone who is two small to play the shooting guard position but scores like one, as well as anyone wiht a two guards body but has natural distributors instincts falls into this category.

Notable combo guards are guys like Dwayne Wade, who has the ball in his hands all the time for hte miami heat and averages 7 or 8 assists along with his 26+ ppg. He is generally considered to large/too scoring oriented to be a point guard, but out of necessity, and due to his ability to draw the defense and his passing instincts he has the ball in his hands most of hte time and all hte offense runs through him.

Another notable example is brandon roy, who is a scorer but can also distribute and often ran hte portland offense before they got andre miller and while miller is on the bench. Roy is a very responsible, low turnover player with no offensive flaws, who can handle hte ball and make plays for others but who is much larger than a prototypical point guard and has a shooting guards offensive repetoire.



When talking about allen iverson, the most usual formula for a combo guard, a guy in a shooting guards body who can distribute, is reversed, to a guy who can pass in a point guards body who can score like crazy.



Personally i would define Iverson as a combo guard, hes a guy who can score, pass, and have the ball in his hands every minute when he was in his prime, any guard who can average like 20+ points and 5+ assists who handles the ball alot and doesn't fit the general size criteria for either point guard or shooting guard could

be considered a combo guard. Basically, a point guard in a shooting guards body, a shooting guard in a point guards body, a hybrid point guard and shooting guard, or a guy in between the typical sizes for the two positions who has both point guard and shooting guard skillsetts.



Originally in the nba, there really were only guards, and then bob cousy came along and really revolutionized the point guard position. Even in the 80's and 90's there were backcourts with two combo guards or two poitn guards, or just two good all around guards that denied hte point guard and shooting guard molds.

combo guard is a very recent term generally used by scouts and talent evaluators.

hope this helped

Answer 6

they can run point & shooting guard, like kobe