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Per Game: 14.3 points, 8.5 assists, 3.0 rebounds, 1.4 threes

Per 75 Possessions: 17.4 points, 10.4 assists, 3.7 rebounds, 1.7 threes

Relative True Shooting Percentage: +7.4

Net Rating Swing: +7.5

Win Shares per 48 Minutes: .164

You might get a few differences here or there, but in general, a coach would tell you that part of a point guard's job is to run the offense. There's a reason the "floor general" cliche exists, even if it's not quite as important in today's largely positionless game.

In the early 2000s, Steve Nash was the NBA's General Patton.

From 1998-99 to 2003-04, he was the starting point guard for the Dallas Mavericks. His team's offensive rating (points per 100 possessions) of 109.0 was a comfortable first leaguewide. Over his next eight seasons leading the Phoenix Suns, his team was first again. And in that stretch, the gap was even bigger.

For more than a decade, if Nash was your point guard, you were almost guaranteed a top-tier offense.

His knack for getting into the paint (or dribbling and U-turning through it) and finding cutters or shooters at the exact right moment made him one of the league's most prolific assist men.

He's third all time in assists, ninth in assists per game and fifth in assist percentage.

But what made him truly devastating was his shooting. Based on "points above average from three," Nash is the fifth-best three-point shooter of all time, trailing only Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, Kyle Korver and Stephen Curry.

A career relative true shooting percentage of plus-7.4 is absurd. That's "big man who only dunks the ball" territory for efficiency.

That accuracy from all over the floor opened up assist opportunities for the passing maestro. As he came off screens from Dirk Nowitzki, Amar'e Stoudemire or any other big, defenders knew they had to respect Nash's pull-up. That made it more difficult to help onto the rolling or popping big.

Nash's deadeye shooting is a big part of why Nowitzki got so many open looks and why Stoudemire had so many throwdowns.

With his combination of shooting and passing, Nash was an offense unto himself.