Since the season is almost over, i wanna put this up for discussion especially because of the dilemma the nba has. Who will be the all - nba 1st team SG??? I for one (and Black Mamba LOL) think that it would be impossible for Kobe not to make it, but Wade has been tearing it up and the ALL - NBA awards are based more on individual performances. So what would happen? Can they do this? PG: CP3 SG: Wade SF: Kobe PF: LeBron C: Dwight or PG: Wade SG: Kobe SF: LeBron PF: Whoever C: Dwight Anyway... here are my teams 1st: CP3 - Wade - Kobe - LeBron - Dwight 2nd: Deron - Roy - Durant - Pau - Al Jeff 3rd: Billups - Granger - Melo - Bosh (He kinda disappeared toward the latter half) - Duncan
I'm pretty sure it's only divided by guards, forwards, and center. So, for example, you can have two shooting guards on the team. After LeBron, who's the other first team forward? Dirk?
One of Kobe and Paul will miss out on a first team spot. Overall there are a lot of good guards who are going to miss out, too. Wade, Paul, Kobe, Deron, Parker, Roy, Johnson, Billups, Harris - at least three of these guys don't make a team. Not to mention your second tier guys like Mo Williams, Rondo and Dre Miller. Also, if Durant wasn't an All-Star, then he sure as hell isn't going to make the second team. Ditto Jefferson, even without the injury.
Mine are: 1st Team: G: Kobe Bryant G: Dwayne Wade F: LeBron James F: Tim Duncan C: Dwight Howard 2nd Team: G: Chris Paul G: Tony Parker F: Dirk Nowitzki F: Pau Gasol C: Yao
I admit it, I'm a little biased, but I don't think that Roy is completely undeserving of a 2nd team nod.
have to change the 2nd team yao pau dirk roy cp3 forgot i can put 2 pfs for the forward spots. durant and pp should be on the 3rd team. prolly one of them wont make it.
first team paul wade lebron duncan dwight second team kobe roy pierce dirk yao the only thing i'm really unsure of is pierce on the 2nd team, but i think it's pretty likely he gets the spot. and kobe will be on the first team at the expense of wade or paul, but he doesn't necessarily deserve it.
1st Team G - Dwyane Wade G - Kobe Bryant F - Lebron James F - Tim Duncan C - Dwight Howard 2nd Team G - Chris Paul G - Brandon Roy F - Dirk Nowitzki F - Pau Gasol C - Yao Ming
Not a prediction, just my personal choice. 1st Team: G Chris Paul G Dwyane Wade F Kobe Bryant F LeBron James C Dwight Howard 2nd Team: G Tony Parker G Brandon Roy F Paul Pierce F Pau Gasol C Tim Duncan 3rd Team G Deron Williams G Chauncey Billups F Dirk Nowitzki F Kevin Garnett C Yao Ming
LOL same as me... its quite something isn't it? that people can't imagine not having Kobe in the 1st team even though he isn't the best 'individual' 2 guard this year
Not saying he isn't deserving, but look at the stats that Tony Parker has put up this year. He's averaging 22pts and 7asts, plus he's getting a steal per game, only turning it over 2.6 times per game, and is shooting 50% from the floor. While Roy has been spectacular, I find it tough to overlook what Tony has done. He's stepped it up in the absences of Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobli and has been incredibly consistent all season. I'm not discounting what Roy has done, but Parker has been too good to not get on the 2nd team. Roy should definitely be a 3rd team guy though.
roy is putting up 23, 5, and 5 this year on 48% shooting with 38% from 3 while also getting over a steal per game and has missed fewer games than parker this season. if what parker has done is too good to not get on the 2nd team then roy is an absolute lock as he has been better than parker.
The only thing he's doing tremendously better than Parker is rebounding, and he's got a size advantage there, so I think that's a moot point. Parker has been more important than Roy this year if you ask me. He's really carried that team through countless injuries, specifically to Manu Ginobli, yet they're still in the hunt for the 2nd seed. Roy hasn't had to deal with as many injuries to teammates aside from Oden. I think both are really deserving, and at this point, it's really a matter of opinion. You can't really go wrong either way, but I'd take Parker over Roy simply because he has been just as good statistically (taking in to considering his position) and has been more important, in my opinion, than Roy.
roy carries his team. parker helps tim duncan out. and the blazers definitely have had injuries. oden has missed about 20 games, blake has missed 10-15, and martell webster who was supposed to be the starting small forward has played 5 minutes on the season. i just don't see any way that parker is more important to his team than roy. and parker hasn't been as good as roy statistically. just looking at the numbers, roy's are better and then per supports this with roy's being 24.34 and parker's being 22.96(which are 7th and 10th in the league).
You mention injuries, as I did, but are any of those guys as important as Manu Ginobli? Absolutely not. The Martell Webster injury has hardly affected them because of their depth at the SG spot. Oden's injury hasn't affected them terribly because they have Joel Pryzbilla to man that spot, and he's been as good or better than Oden for a good chunk of the season. Manu Ginobli is a player you can't replace. He's a guy that can create his shot at any point and makes life a lot easier for Parker and Duncan because of his ability to stretch the defense. Take away Webster...well...he was easily replaced by someone like Rudy Fernandez..who does the exact same thing that Webster was going to do...shoot and make a bunch of threes. And as for Parker helping Duncan...and? It might be arguable that Parker has been the best player on that team this year. Pau Gasol helps Kobe, does that mean he shouldn't be on the 2nd team? No. Who cares what his role on the team is. He's put up the numbers to be on the 2nd team, as has Roy. Like I said, it's a matter of opinion. You have yours, I have mine, and they clearly don't match.
So I just noticed that you have Duncan on your 3rd team. How is that? I personally can't see putting Al Jefferson, a guy who is going to miss what, 30 games or so this season, on the 2nd team over him. Personally, I can't see him missing out on the 1st team, mainly because of G-G-F-F-C set up that it has.
Yep only 50 games this year for Al Jeff. Don't worry Minny fans, I'm sure he'll do even better next year though.
my main issue was that you said to look at parker's numbers like they were so good that you couldn't keep him off the 2nd team when in reality roy's numbers are as good or better. then you brought up importance to their teams where roy is by far the most important blazer while parker is at best the second most important spur. the spurs are 7-3 without parker(and at least one of those was a game duncan and manu both sat out as well). playing with duncan doesn't mean that parker is unable to be on the 2nd team, but duncan is the one who carries that team not parker. parker has been great but i don't see how he deserves to be ahead of roy based on anything other than past success.
