Eric Bledsoe - photo by Harry How | Getty
Bledsoe's problem isn't that he's not a “true” point guard or some kind of scoring guard hybrid; it's that his scoring is inefficient, and his limited playmaking abilities can't compensate. If Bledsoe had been more effective one way or another, his overall performance would be substantially better. John Wall, Bledsoe's teammate at Kentucky last season, provides an example of effective counterbalancing; though Wall's true shooting percentage (a good measure of shooting efficiency) is just as low as Bledsoe's…
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.
