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I used to be a BIG Mike Bibby fan... he used to kill in college and then those years where the Kings were relevant, he was the man.

With that said... I am going to fry him right now. And not just because he was the worst tattoos in the NBA.


My God Brother lived in Sacramento so I can understand his bias, but I could not let him tell me that Mike Bibby is a good PG still.

Now I'm not a big stat guy, but I will admit stats do assist in the judgment of player's productivity. Like in the NFL, runningbacks who are considered elite runningbacks have to get 1,000 yards in a year. Elite pitchers in baseball should get at least 15 wins. There are statistical plateaus in every sport that help us identify who the premier players are at the position.

For point guards in the NBA, it's about how much offense you can produce. The formula I'm going to use is POINTS + (ASSISTS x 2.5) = POINTS PRODUCED. I multiply the assists by 2.5 because some assists lead to 3 pointers and some would-be-assists turn into points at the free throw line.

Using this formula, there is a point producing plateau of 30 points per game. The elite point guards in the NBA are producing over 30 points a game... and Mike Bibby isn't doing that. Readers Beware: If you are a Mike Bibby fan, or Mike Bibby, these numbers might scare you.


Here are the top producing PGs in the NBA:

47.6 - Steve Nash
44.3 - Allen Iverson
43.4 - Gilbert Arenas
40.4 - Baron Davis
39.5 - Deron Williams
39.5 - Chris Paul
36.0 - Jason Kidd
35.0 - Chauncy Billiups
33.8 - TJ Ford
32.9 - Andre Miller
32.6 - Mo Williams
32.4 - Tony Parker
32.1 - Kirk Hinrich
31.5 - Raymond Felton
30.4 - Ben Gordon
30.1 - Jamal Tinsley

PLATEAU

29.9 - Stephon Marbury
29.7 - Jason Terry
28.9 - MIKE BIBBY
25.6 - Brevin Knight
23.8 - Jameer Nelson (shockingly low; Orlando wants to build around this guy???)

That's pretty much the bottom of the barrel of point guards who really don't share time. Excluding Allen Iverson who is really a 2 guard., and either Hinrich OR Gordon because one of them is technically a 2 guard, that puts 14 PGs over the plateau and Bibby is coming in at 17th in the NBA. That's the bottom half of the NBA.

His 2004-2005 season he produced 36.6 points a game for his team. He doesn't have the same guys around him but that should increase the team's need for him to score, but yet's it's gone down by 2ppg. If he is a scoring point guard, he need to do way better than the 17ppg with 40% shooting from the field he put out last year. You either have to put up major points or set up teammates. He is doing neither.

I really do think he has a case of the I-Don't-Give-A-F***s... Vince Carter got them in Toronto, Randy Moss got them in Oakland. Maybe he'll be moved and with a fresh start on a contender he can give them better than average point guard play. He's is not damaged goods yet, but he is far from an elite guard in the NBA.

I didn't even talk about his defense, HA! For right now, we'll just leave it with him not being an elite guard and needing to do, or create more of these (below)... a ball going through what I think is a rims and what I think is supposed to be a net.