The following article was written by Ashwin Ramnath. Enjoy!
There was a time when being a combo guard was viewed as death knell for your chances at being a quality starter in the NBA. You were neither good enough to organize and direct an offense as expected of a point guard, nor were you completely comfortable playing off the ball as expected of a shooting guard.
Combo guard was virtually a euphemism for sixth man scoring guards. OAKAAK Jamal Crawford is the OG of this archetype.
In today’s “modern” NBA — a euphemism for less rigid positional designations and structural adherence — combo guards are very much en vogue.