Ok so I know pg is supposed to be the floor general with good passing and bh, but I also know WIS is not always like real life. I also know that your starting guards should have good bh and passing in this game to be successful.

My question is, if I have a guard who does not have great bh and pass, but he is still a starter because he is a beast on the floor (just one of those guys who performs very well despite low perimeter/bh/pass, likely due to ath/spd/def) would it hurt me too much to play him at pg depending on matchups?

I ask this because I normally play this guy at sg and he's a stud. His ath/spd/def is in the 80's, but his bh/pass are in the 30's (this is a DIII player). I have a matchup where the guys main scorer who has like 99 per is generally playing at pg, but my normal pg who has good bh/pass is very weak in defense and athleticism. This is a M2M defense. I want to match the great defender against this scorer, but want to make sure I'm not hurting my team too much playing him at pg over sg. Thoughts?

Try him at Small Forward...

Yeah I play guys like this at SF regularly, regardless of whether they have Reb or not.  I wouldn't recommend putting a 30/30 BH/Pass at point, though.  I don't think the defensive boost against his best scorer would be worth the damage he'd do to your offense.

Sometimes you can't do much about a great scorer.  Lots of times I take the philosophy that he's going to get his points regardless, so I'll try to shut down something else.  It depends, of course.

Well I did not get a chance to check this post again before the game ran and had the low bh/pass guy at the point. I did alright with it though. No significant turnover issues and we were able get his lead scorer got into major foul trouble trying to handle my ath/spd guy.


http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/GameResults/BoxScore.aspx?gid=8713817

thorton is the guy I moved to cover engle.