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I don't know that it has to be so cut and dry as two assisting "point" guards. It's all about basketball players on the floor in general.
When LeBron played here with Kyrie, LeBron averaged something like 8 assists per game while Kyrie also got around 5 assists.
This past season, Draymond Green averaged 6.9 assists per game, Stephen Curry at 5.2 assists per game, and Kevin Durant at 5.9 assists per game.
Would we not agree those were the best teams over that span in the NBA?
There isn't a detriment to having multiple players on the court that can share the basketball and create for teammates. An insistence on having a single point guard is somewhat tired and outdated.
I'll say this at the outset -- if someone has already concluded that Sexton is never going to be good enough to be a 5-6 apg PG in the league, and must become an undersized SG to have a role in the league, then my argument doesn't matter. Otherwise....
You sorta ducked the question I asked. I asked how many other teams operated "two co-equal facilitators in the backcourt". You didn't answer other than to say it was essentially an irrelevant question ("An insistence on having a single point guard is somewhat tired and outdated"), and to point me to teams that had a primary facilitator in the backcourt, and another in the frontcourt.
But if it is true that having a primary PG is "somewhat tired and outdated", shouldn't it have been relatively easy for you to name a bunch of pairs of co-facilitating guys in the backcourt, to prove how tired and outdated the PG concept is? But you didn't name even find one, and that's because it is still overwhelmingly common for NBA teams to have a a primary PG and then an SG in the backcourt, even if there is another primary facilitator in the frontcourt. And yes, I think distinction between having both primary facilitators in the backcourt v. splitting between the frontcourt and the backcourt matters. You can find lots of instances like the ones you did -- one primary facilitator in the frontcourt, one in the backcourt. But the splitting those duties between two shrimpy combo-guards? Again...how common is that truly?
The reason I asked that wasn't to be a pendantic jackass (though I may be one anyway). It was trying to establish what the market is going to be for someone like Sexton 2-3 years down the road if he hasn't developed sufficient point guard skills. What are we teaching him to become?
Look at the two examples you used -- Kyrie and Curry. When they entered the league, both of those guys were well ahead of where Sexton currently is in terms of being a facilitator. Both also played the PG position exclusively (not in a dual facilitator role with someone else in the backcourt) upon entering the NBA to help develop those skills. Kyrie had 5.4 apg his rookie year -- Steph had 5.9. Sexton was at 3.0 So yes, both of those guys eventually had other wing players on their team who facilitated more than they did, but both were fully capable of holding down a normal PG role with another team. You trade for either guy...you've got your primary backcourt distributor, and can pair him with a longer, more traditional SG-type in the backcourt.
But Sexton's skills are not at that point -- he's behind where those guys were in their development. He needs the kind of possession after possession ball handling/facility that you get from being the primary facilitator in the backcourt, not trying to figure out when it is your turn versus the turn of the guy next to your (which is part of why I don't think that ever really works). Garland needs the same thing because he also is well-behind where both Kyrie and Steph were in terms of being a facilitator when they entered the league.
I don't believe that putting Sexton and Garland in dual combo-guard roles is going to be nearly as good for the development of their distributing/facilitating skills as would be making either the full-time PG. They'll be doing the "your turn/mine turn" thing, which basically amounts to getting half as much experience as they might otherwise get. And we'll be running a backcourt style that nobody else in the league really uses. Neither guy will be developing the true range of skills to make him as valuable to other teams as he might otherwise be, because other teams are going to be looking for a different skill set from 6' 1.5" guards.