Best Shooting (not scoring) PG's in history?

[johnnyrondo]

Thanks for the list, but when did Mario Elie play pg?  Hubert Davis, Brent Barry, and Ainge I much more consider shooting guards. Barbosa is a combo guard. Kerr is a unique case. Even more than Paxson, by the time Kerr played for the Bulls, Pippen was essentially the PG.

I'll stick with my picks of Nash and Price, because they were point guards and nothing else and they were/are multiple all-star level players who are known for scoring by the J, unlike Magic who became an acceptable shooter, but was more a scorer. Based on the stats you provide Stockton should be in the discussion as well, but I always felt more confident with Nash and Price and they appeared to have more range, but maybe I'm wrong and Stockton was as good or better a long range shooter.

[Roy Hobbs]

Thanks for the list, but when did Mario Elie play pg?  Hubert Davis, Brent Barry, and Ainge I much more consider shooting guards. Barbosa is a combo guard. Kerr is a unique case. Even more than Paxson, by the time Kerr played for the Bulls, Pippen was essentially the PG.

Yeah, Elie probably didn't play a lot of point, and doesn't necessarily belong on that list; I think he played some de facto point guard, but he was more of an off-guard (and SF).  The others, though, at least all shared ball-handling duties.  For instance, neither DJ nor Ainge was a pure point guard in the Celtics offense.

I think it's fair to say that Nash and Stockton were the two best-shooting "true" / "pure" point guards of all time, with Mark Price being third.