Allstar Game Issues

by longtimelistenerfirsttimecaller on Jan 8, 2009 1:38 PM PST

Clearly nobody is making the Allstar team. I doubt if KMart would make it had he been healthy all year. But if all our hopes are pinned on the youngsters, shouldn't we have some representation in the Rookie vs. Sophmore game? Hollinger's chat on ESPN suggests that no King will make it (neither Hawes nor JT)... worse yet, he predicts that 3 of the OKC Thunder will (Durant, Green, Westbrook). Clearly a Blazer or two will make it (Oden, Fernandez?) ... Clearly a couple of Grizzlies will make it... (Gasol, Mayo)... I bet even the Clips get Gordon in the game... TWolves probably are represented by Love. Maybe the Warriors are in the same boat as us...

Is this troubling? Are we looking at our youngsters through rose colored glasses?

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Good question

I think the general dysfunction around the franchise this year isn’t going to help those guys. But it isn’t really about All-Star games right now – it’s whether we’d rather have Spencer and JT rather than any other player picked after them in the draft.

Right now, I’m happy with those picks. Maybe that’s rose-colored glasses or beer goggles or whatever talking, but for now, I think the potential is there for these guys to be very productive NBA players.

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by otis29 on Jan 8, 2009 1:44 PM PST reply actions

Current performance vs potential

It’s my understanding that the rookies vs sophomores game is decided completely based on demonstrated performance in the league rather than on potential. So even if everyone in the league thought someone like Greene (or even JT) has all the tools to be great some day, they’re not in the game because there are rookie 3’s (and 4’s in JT’s case) that have shown more to date. Has a sophomore center shown more than Hawes? I can’t think of one offhand, so I have hope that he might appear.

Nevertheless, I think that we are asking a different question from the selectors. We’re asking if they look like they might be really awesome some day. Do we ask that question wearing rose-colored glasses? Of course. We’re fans. But the Rookies-Sophs game isn’t proof that we’re totally crazy.

by twasserm on Jan 8, 2009 2:14 PM PST reply actions

perspective

In thinking about none of these guys being worthy of rookie/soph allstar game, it forced me to look at the guys likely to make it (on the teams who are also struggling) and I wonder if their “future” is brighter because their young core might be better.

by longtimelistenerfirsttimecaller on Jan 8, 2009 2:27 PM PST reply actions

we might be expecting too much

jeff green taken 5th. westbrook taken 4th. durant taken 2nd.

hawes 10. thompson 12. greene 28.

realistically, you would hope that their youth might be a little better. i assume that our high pick this year should also be in the game next year. remember that their young core is also their “entire core”. our’s includes a guy called Kevin Martin, which gives me hope that we might get good a little quicker (crossed fingers).

by thisismellow on Jan 8, 2009 3:39 PM PST reply actions

Realistically

They have more holes to fill, and they’re only being filled by youth at this point. Which is probably not a bad thing overall for OKC in terms of their future. And I do think, despite any negatives that Blake Griffin will end up having over the course of the season, his probably best fit (basketball wise) is with the Thunder.

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by pookeyguru on Jan 8, 2009 4:30 PM PST up reply actions

i dont kno bout the rookie soph game

but the all star game is fucked. yi might make it on the east time but his team mate devin harris wont. allen iverson over harris? cmon. i just think the voting is fucked up i dont like it

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by Robby1987 on Jan 10, 2009 4:46 AM PST reply actions

It may just change after this year

check this out:

While Howard is nearly two million votes in front of Samuel Dalembert at the Eastern Conference center position, James and Boston’s Kevin Garnett top the forward slots. Garnett has 1,375,814 votes and is more than 100,000 in front of New Jersey’s Yi Jianlian.

courtesy of http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nba/news/news.aspx?id=4202191

by betweentheeyes on Jan 10, 2009 11:37 AM PST reply actions

JT

I’m thinking that there’s a good chance for JT to be on the soph team next year. But he’s got two things going against him:
-Lack of name recognition from college
-Plays in Sacramento (we ain’t exactly in the national spotlight)

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by Exhibit G on Jan 13, 2009 6:34 AM PST reply actions