{"id":1937007,"date":"2026-10-07T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937007"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:29:47","slug":"malone-has-lead-guard-group-of-connectors-with-nobody-called-point-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937007","title":{"rendered":"Malone has lead guard group of \u2018connectors\u2019 with nobody called point guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 Michael Malone is one of the many coaches who believe basketball is positionless, and he has enough playmakers to make it work in the backcourt. With Terrence Brown Jr., Neo Avdalas, Matt Able and Angelo Brizzi, all transfers, it won\u2019t be important to designate one player as a point guard. They\u2019re all lead guards who can distribute the ball and create opportunities for teammates. That will keep opponents from keying in on one player defensively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/07\/malone-has-lead-guard-group-of-connectors-with-nobody-called-point-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 Michael Malone is one of the many coaches who believe basketball is positionless, and he has enough playmakers to make it work in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1937017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937009,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937007\/revisions\/1937009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}