Commish: Sick with the Flip

by Vincent Thomas / @vincecathomas Even before Flip Saunders took over as coach of the Washington Wizards, a basketball junkie could look at Gilbert Arenas and think, “Man, if this dude ever channeled his inner-Billups, he’d be really scary.” Chauncey Billups is like the poster child for mega-talented point guards that eventually learn to blunt their own scoring brilliance for the good of the team. He’s not the first, but he’s most recently successful example of the “combo guard” or “hybrid guard” settling into being a top flight point guard. (Isiah Thomas, the greatest of them all, a guy that could have averaged 30 if he wanted to, never attempted more than 16 shots per game during the Pistons contending years.) You can argue who, aside from Billups himself, is most responsible for this (Billups said of Larry Brown: “Larry made me believe that I could have 10 assists, a couple of steals and only nine points and still domin...