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I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.
I'll try to help everybody. That's what I try to do as a point guard.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?
It's not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.
I'm getting drafted because I can guard multiple positions. Anything that comes other than that, there's no pressure there.
I just wanted to become a better player at everything - someone who is a real tough matchup to guard.
I looked up to Magic Johnson a lot. He was a tall point guard who found his teammates and had a good time.
I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.
I can rebound, block shots, push the ball - basically, anything you need from a guard. Off the court, I'm humble.
My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.
I'm definitely a 'comfort' player. As a point guard, I like to know my teammates, feel connected to my teammates, and flow with them.
I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
Bogut - I wouldn't be the defender I am without Bogut. He taught me a ton. Angles. How to guard the post. You name it, he taught me a ton.
I think I have what a New York City point guard is made of: toughness, a lot of heart, and the ability to be a leader.
I try to use my athleticism and my strength to be able to guard bigger guys, and being able to guard bigger guys is going to get me more minutes on the floor.
Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that's not me.
Point guard is like the quarterback. It's an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They're about the others.
A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.
The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.
Definitely, my whole life I've played as a point guard. I've tried to get in the paint, and I've tried to develop for others.
It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.
I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.
I played the two guard in college, and playing point guard is what I've done all my life.
I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.
In college, playing the two guard, I found a way to get drafted.
Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.
When you move into becoming more of a shooting guard, you get more catch-and-shoot three's, lot of pin-downs and things like that where you shoot the three a lot more.
Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.
People would make fun of me because they were acting like I can't dribble. But, in my head, I was always a guard... I was like, 'Yo, I'm tall, but I don't care. I'm not no big man.'
Sometimes, it's the little plays that I make that can change the outcome of the game - whether it's blocking a shot or blitzing a guard or getting an offensive rebound.
I've learned to play you know the backup point guard spot and to play on the wing if need be, and it's something I embrace.
I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.
I don't want to say which guard it was with the Bulls, but I would take the ball and he would come to me and say, 'You are taking my bread.' I didn't know the slang.
I'm athletic enough to do guard stuff, so if you were to mold me into having guard moves and footwork in a big's body, that's revolutionizing the game.
On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.
Most people don't know I like to block shots. I'm going to be a big point guard out there. So just come in and prove myself. Just show why I belong on this stage.
My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.
Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball so much so it probably didn't help much with being a point guard.
My whole life I played the point, so naturally I think as a point. Two guard, I get to score more... During the game, I like to mix it up.
I can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.
I think I can score. But personally, I like to pass first, because people love people who pass. And I'm a point guard, so my job is to kind of get people open.
I've always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it's helped me see things I didn't previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.
I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.
In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.
With my game, my biggest asset is being a point guard who can get into the paint.
You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.
Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.