Amateur: Remaining Teams and their PGs

[ambchang]

Of the 4 PGs who made the all star team in the East, 3 remain - Teague, Irving, Wall, which means that only one was eliminated (Lowry). Only 1 of the four can be called the leader of the team (Wall), while the other two are either part of a bigger group (Teague, with Horford being the best player on that team), or a clear 2nd banana (Irving to Lebron).

Of the 4 PGs who made the all star team in the West, 2 remain - CP3 and Curry, and both are MVP caliber players, with Curry winning it this year. The other two either didn't make the playoffs (Westbrook) or got booted out in the first round (Lillard).

This means that only 3 of the 8 remaining teams do not have an all-star PG.

Houston is one of them, but they have the best SG and C in the game.
Memphis is the other, but Conley is easily one of the better PGs on that team, and along with Gasol, are clearly leaders on that team.
The final one is Chicago, who has always been a team that doesn't really have a superstar. That said, Rose has been balling since the playoffs began, and is really the head of that snake.

In other words, 7 of the 8 teams have all-star caliber PGs, with 2 of them being clear leaders of the team, 1 being a co-leader on the team, and the remaining 4 being either a strong 2nd banana or a strong focus of the troop.

Now, throughout the year, there was talk about how PGs are useless in today's "positionless" basketball, and versatile SF are the way to go.

Of the top SF:
Kawhi is done
Lebron is still there, not because he's a SF, but because he's the best player on the planet
Durant was hurt all year
Butler is now a 3rd banana in Chicago, and he's more a SG anyways.

And that is it.

So are we seeing a revival of PG, with the reign of SF lasting only a couple of years? (And by SF I mean Lebron and Durant.)

[Cry Havoc]

It makes sense given that the league is changing to be more pace and space and revolving around the creation of open jumpshots rather than isoball.

What do you need a good PG for if you're just going to give the ball to your SG/SF and let them go 1v1 on every possession? Defenses are too smart to let that beat them anymore. When consistent ball movement becomes paramount and turnovers have to be minimized, point guards will flourish.

It's not enough for a point to be just a distributor anymore, though. It's easy to sag off them and clog passing lanes if that happens. They have to be able to shoot the rock and truly be at least a dual-threat to run the offense.