Talk:Shooting guard

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I've done a fairly large re-write on this article and based it's new look on the point guard article. Any comments? KOS | talk 05:17, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

This page has improved greatly in terms of content. I feel, having read it, that I understand the essential skills of a shooting guard, as well as bonus skills, the way a shooting guard fits into a typical play, etc. Now the page needs some work on grammar and style. This sentence, for instance, is odd:

"Shooting guards can be known for excelling at certain skills that shooting guards should be able to exhibit."

Well, of course. At the very least a player should master the skill set for his or her position, no? If this sentence is meant (as I believe it is, judging from the awkward sentence fragment that immediately follows in the paragraph) to introduce a discussion of players who are particularly known for mastering the shooting guard skill set (as opposed, say, to being all-around good players who just happen to be physically suited for the shooting guard position), then I suggest changing the sentence to say just that: "Certain shooting guards are particularly known for mastering the shooting guard skill set (as opposed, say to being all-around good players who just happen to be physically suited for the shooting guard position)". Then I would begin the next sentence with the words, "Such shooting guards include . . ." The phrase "such as", which starts the sentence at present, is appropriate to a subordinate clause, not a full sentence. TheShyUnique