I can see making the argument that this team is never going anywhere and the real future is AB and Monta

It is unwise to just stick Monta at the 2 without even giving thought to developing him as a pg.  From Nellie's perspective,  putting him as a 1 as opposed to a 2 just makes more sense in terms of favorable matchups.

As a 2, Monta may play a more natural position,  allowing him to score more.  However, your backcourt as a whole suffers defensively.  Against a team with a marquee 2 guard, are you going to D him up with Baron Davis or Monta?  Last I remember, Monta isn't exactly a lockdown defender. Imagine him guarding someone who's got more than a couple of inches on him.  Quickness advantages would be negated as 2's could pull up on him. You can teach handling and passing, but you can't teach height.   Also,  Davis and Monta on the floor at the same time puts more pressure on our frontcourt to rebound.  J rich is an infinitely better rebounder than Monta and Davis.  

Having Monta play point gives him the advantage of height.   His quickness won't be negated as much b/c he's one of the faster guys in the league already.  Now, sure he doesn't have handles or isn't much of a passer.  But it would be ludicrous to not develop them.  

I really don't think Monta is a young Iverson.  Iverson has always had handles.  Monta is just quick and a natural scorer.  Monta to me has always been more closer to Tony Parker but with height and hops.  Not to say he can't become more than that,  but ideally with the team makeup, you can't argue that Monta's ideal role would be as a facilitator who uses his natural scoring knack when the offense gets bogged down.  Having him drop 30 a game would be counterproductive considering the amount of scorers we have on this team.  

So unless the W's are gonna blow up the team and bring in a bunch of defensive stopper around Monta, having Monta average 30+ is not a good blueprint to success.