Donovan Mitchell WILL be point guard someday!!!

I’m not saying his scoring will go down over the years because he switches to mainly point guard. Nor am I saying that he will only play point guard by the time he reaches his 3rd year in the league. I actually agree that he is a scoring guard. There is a such thing as a point guard who does most of the scoring for their team. Look at Westbrook and Harden, they are scoring guards yet they also average a bunch of assists. Westbrook is actually close to averaging a triple double, so that proves that he can do a lot more than just score. So can Mitchell. I just don’t know how you can ignore the other stats such as assists and boards and only see his scoring. That’s just one aspect of his game. He can do much more. By doing that you are disrespecting the other things he can do and putting him into a category. You are stereotyping him. I do think Mitchell will play shooting guard several times in his career. I even expect him to do so after his third year in the league. But I also expect his averages in boards and assists to really improve after his 3rd season, because he will shift to playing PG a lot more. We are only seeing a small sample of the player he will be right now. He is not done developing. It sounds that’s what a lot of you have concluded. He’s a scoring guard and that’s all he can do, just score, maybe average a few assists and boards here and there but he will mainly score. Do you realize how small and shallow minded that sounds?

 To those of you that argue that playing Mitchell solely at PG would take away his strengths and amplify his weaknesses, you are just looking at he has done this year. He has had to do most of not all of the scoring for his team. Look at the situation he is in. Gobert doesn’t a lot of scoring. This team was built around Gobert when Mitchell was first drafted. The jazz had lost their two main scorers from last year in Hayward and George Hill. For the first half of the season, it looked like the people who had been saying the Jazz couldn’t score enough points to win games were actually right. So what do you expect Mitchell to do. Of course he’s going to score. He’s always been asked to do that. But over this entire season he has also been asked to do more than score. Which is why you see him getting multiple boards and assists in each game. He has facilitated a lot more in his rookie season than his stats lead many to believe.

If you really think about it, what do teams ask their point guards to do? They ask them to pass, rebound, score, play good D. Mainly, they ask them to facilitate the offense. Usually this looks like a lot of passing, but it’s more than just that, it’s running the offense, making the right decisions, and knowing when to score or be aggressive and when to let other players do that instead. That’s what I’m saying Mitchell will be in the future, he will facilitate the offense. I’m not saying he’s going to average 9 assists per game by his 3rd season. It will still gradually improve, but over the course of his career we will see Mitchell running the offense more than just looking to score.

 Dazzling Dunks, this is what I’ve been trying to tell people all along. But people just seem to be to caught up in the traditional pg of CP3/John Stockton that they can’t see a scorer such as Mitchell playing that position. But there are many types of point guards and all have proved just as valuable for their respective teams. Point guards come in all shapes and sizes. But there is not one shape or size or playing style that a point guard has to have in order to be a point guard. It all depends on the team, and what they want or works best for them. Donovan is doing already doing the things that I would classify as being a point guard. So to say that he has never played PG before at any level and therefore can’t do it in the nba, while that may be true it is disregarding what he doing so well with right now with the Jazz. I know he hasn’t played PG at any level but then I watch him play as a jazz fan and seeing him do all things that I would classify as being a point guard, that I just can’t deny it. And for that reason I can feel it in my gut that eventually people will classify him as a point guard just as they do Steph Curry, Damian Lillard, Russell Westbrook, James Harden as point guards even though in the truest sense they are all scoring guards.