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[Ghost of Podkolzin]

You can describe Luka as point forward if you wish. But the fact that he is a PG, also allows us to play two shooting guards or one guard and one wing instead of a PG and SG. This is what allows Mavs to have a bigger team on the floor without sacrificing any playmaking. Average PG is much smaller than Luka. 

I would say while Jokic is a point center, he is not really Denvers PG. That is Murray and I think Denver always plays with a PG on the floor. Jokic is just very good at facilitating and creating, but he is not running PnR, for example.

Joker plays from the point.  Murray is no more a PG than Kyrie is.  It wasn't until the playoffs that Murray did so much distribution because Joker can play off the ball.  This is maturity in their playing together.  I see Luka and Kyrie developing the same.

Luka is rarely ever guarded by PGs, more often SFs.  Ditto on on who he guards.  Point GUARD is a guard.  Luka is not a guard in any way.  He is a SF who plays from the point, on both offense and defense.  This matters only in that it gives us extreme flexibility (similar to DEN).  You can play Luka with two guards, or a guard and another SF.  I would love to have a Tari Eason/OG type SF en lieu of THJ/J.Green, going big and taking advantage of a Lebron sized point forward.

Kyrie
J.Green
Luka
PF
C

or 

Kyrie
Eason/OG
Luka
PF
C