Jahii Carson among impact PGs

— -- As far back as he can remember, Jahii Carson liked to have the ball in his hands, not merely to play the game of basketball but to direct it.

Theoretically a good point guard can be manufactured, but the great ones usually are born into the job, their DNA hardwired for the demands of the position in the womb.

That was always Carson. Even as a kid, he thrived on decision-making demands of the job, confident that his choices would be best for him as well as his teammates. (Though his point guard DNA must be the byproduct of a recessive gene. His mother, Vanae, was a 2-guard at Wisconsin-Green Bay who, her son said, "liked to shoot. A lot.'').

So it's more than just a little ironic that the most critical year in Carson's development came when he didn't have the ball in his hand.