Their styles could hardly be more different.
Pistol Pete Maravich was as flashy a ballhandler and passer the game has ever seen, the kind of player you couldn’t take your eyes off for fear you’d miss something spectacular.
Joe Ingles, meanwhile, has heard every joke there is about his countenance on the basketball court and the way his game seems to lull teams to sleep.
In either case, defenders have blinked at their own risk over the years.
With a pass to Rudy Gobert in the first quarter Monday night, Ingles dished out the 1,845th assist of his careering, passing the famed Maravich for the seventh most assists in Jazz history.