Tough Carolina Point Guards

Steve Hale caught Bill Guthridge’s attention at Five Star Camp when he was diving for loose balls on outdoor concrete courts.
 
BillyL said:
Great list, hard to argue against anyone in this lineup of tough PGs.
I alway liked Steve Previs . . . he & Karl made a fantastic backcourt.
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I labored a bit over which to list -- they are really the only combo point guard team that I can recall. Both of them carried that mantle at times. If we're going to call Previs a point guard he very well might be the toughest of all.
 
Centerpiece said:
Kenny the Jet wasn't a push-over
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Indeed. In 1987 UNC played a memorable game against a very good Clemson team at Clemson. That Clemson team had Horace Grant and was ranked pretty high. They led by 13 points at halftime but UNC scored a whopping 70 points in the second half to score a come-from-behind 108-99 victory. That was a crazy, highly entertaining game.

Kenny Smith had injured his left knee and missed the previous game and was scheduled for surgery, but he played anyway and scored a career-high 41 points, 27 of them in UNC's second-half comeback. I remember watching that game and Clemson looked awesome in the first half, but UNC's comeback was incredible, and Kenny Smith was the driver of it. He was a "tough little nut", as Roy Williams liked to say.

ETA: For my money Derrick Phelps was probably the toughest UNC point guard. That guy played through so many painful injuries, including playing injured through all of our NCAA tourney run to the national title in 1993.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
Toughest?

Give me a pissed off Ray Ray
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I was in Maui in 2004 for all three games. For the Tennessee semi I was three rows back from the court under one of the baskets.

Great to find it online — so at 21:50 of this video, Tennessee travels. Unfortunately the edit cuts out the exchange, but Jawad was inbounding and pointed to Ray that Tennessee was pressing and were right up on him. Ray turned around to look and turned back to Jawad with a disgusted scowl on his face, waved his hand (like “that ain’t shit”) and said “man, give me the ball!” Jawad passed it to him and Ray blew past the first guy, sliced through two other guys like they weren’t there, and kicked it all the way across to the opposite wing where Melvin was wide open and drilled a three.

Their press didn’t last long. But the scowl on Ray’s face and tone of his voice and how he looked absolutely disrespected while also completely unbothered by their pressure had me dying 😆 He won me over at that point as my favorite ever. He was 100% dog.

 
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