How to Use point guard in a Sentence

point guard

noun
  • The point guard has not reached out.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • These men are point guards in name only.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Who will be the backup point guard?
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Cronin believed in his point guard.
    — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Last year’s team was missing a true point guard.
    — Cj Moore, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The first-round pick even ran a little point guard.
    — Jay King, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Schröder would defend point guards.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • To that end, met his mandate as a third-string point guard.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
  • That's what happens when there is no true point guard on the floor.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2022
  • That sent the point guard to the bench for the rest of the third quarter.
    — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • The team needs a guard, but Flagg will not take on a point guard role.
    — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Ryan Rollins closed the season as a starter at point guard.
    — Eric Nehm, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • What, there are 10 better point guards?
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Rubio proved to be a solid but not great point guard.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • But driving the offense as a point guard?
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Schröder was penciled in as the point guard in both contests.
    — Hunter Felt, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Samuels might have found a role as a backup point guard next season.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, there’s the question of the point guard spot.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The 6-foot point guard plays with springs in his shoes and can score from anywhere.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Green's game fits well with what Miller's looking for in a point guard.
    — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Some of those guards will be smaller and will be best deployed as point guards.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Wallace said the Nuggets tried to move up in the draft for a point guard.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
  • Mike is the ultimate point guard.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 18 May 2026
  • Atkins was a consummate point guard.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
  • That was a play the Huskies lacked with their point guard struggles last year.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Self was there to see point guard Taylen Kinney.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Then the team added Dennis Schröder to be the point guard?
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Houston is in need of adding depth to the point guard position.
    — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Because in a lot of ways, the point guard is the most important.
    — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 5 July 2022
  • George went on to praise Murray’s overall growth as a point guard.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Dec. 2021

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