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Originally posted by rainmaker
And by the way, if defense are the only people who can guard, why is the person who usually brings the ball up the floor called the Point Guard?
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IIRC, The player positions are more historically descriptive than current.
Forwards played forward and attacked the basket (attempted to score). Guards guarded the other basket (attempt to stop the other team from scoring). Centers assisted both efforts. In some versions of the rules the guards and forwards were limited to staying in their half of the court while centers could cross from end to end.
While looking around the web on this topic, I found the following very interesting link:
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/amst...ll/changes.htm
[Edited by Camron Rust on May 28th, 2004 at 03:45 PM]