DeCourcy: "Wall is the Greatest Point Guard Athlete...ever"

Here is an excerpt of an article by Mike DeCourcry at SportingNews.com:

1. John Wall is the greatest point guard athlete ... ever

In 25 years, if you are a fan of college basketball, you will be seeing highlights of the time Wall drove on a fast break, got himself too deep under the backboard, and solved that problem by gliding to the opposite side and scooping in a layup past Carolina's Marcus Ginyard. This will be a little different because Julius Erving's swoop past Mark Landsberger was in the NBA Finals, but Wall's play stirred echoes of Dr. J's brilliance.

"It was just instinct," Wall said. "I was just going to go up for a regular layup, but I saw how the defense was trying to cut me off. I had to go up and under. I saw Ginyard coming, so I just tried to reach my body across. I tried to get it to the rim, and luckily it went in."

Two years ago, I wrote that Derrick Rose was the greatest athlete to play the position: the most imposing combination of size, strength, speed, quickness and leaping ability. So it may appear as though I'll write that about every jock-y point guard that comes along. Not so.

To rewrite that declaration so soon required an almost miraculous advancement of those essential qualities. And Wall is blessed with all of it. He is not as strong as Rose, but he is longer, a shade taller, perhaps even faster end-to-end and even better at elevating and controlling his body once in the air.

He also offers some other thoughts on Kentucky's victory over North Carolina.

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