I routinely guard the guys with the best handles and I do a good job staying in front of them. That being said, at my age I would get REKT at rucker I hate when guys just wanna ISO on me and try to break my ankles. If I steal the ball or lock someone down the whole game, but he breaks my ankle once... no one will remember how I locked dude up. They are gonna remember him shaking me
I play in a league and I'm a 3 and D guy. I will never drop 30, unless teams are dumb and leave me open all game. My ceiling is like 15 points on 5 threes. Sunday I hit 4-6 on 3s. Everyone said I was the player of the game... and I'm like uh huh sure lol. Usually I hit 1 or 2 threes and I will never get another open look the rest of the game because the defense will pay attention to me. We have 1 superstar and our PG is solid. I guess providing space for them is still valuable and I'm a good willing passer.