<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Miami -- With Jason Richardson saying this weekend he is done with the slam- dunk contest, the Warriors lost another shot at having an All-Star representative on Monday. Forward Troy Murphy was not invited by the NBA to compete in the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout in Denver, despite being among the league's best in 3-point accuracy. Murphy is hitting 46.3 percent of his attempts (31-of-67) from behind the arc. The shooting clip would place him third in the league behind Minnesota's Fred Hoiberg and Denver's Jason Terry if he had enough 3s to qualify for the official leaderboard. "See man, no respect," Murphy joked after the game. </div> Source
Yeah everything about the allstar voting and balloting is just B.S. Ginobilli gets voted in over Jason Richardson as a possible reserve when his average shot attempts per game is only like 10-11 on a team with Duncan, Parker, Rasho and Barry? The guy is only scoring 16 points per game and yeah he's had some explosive moments, he's a great defender, but in the context of the team he's not the Spurs' focal point on offense. Then we have Jason Richardson who has putting up allstar numbers averaging 9 field goals made out of an average of 20 shot attempts per game, nearly 4 assists per game, 6 rebounds per game, 1.5 steals per game, 22 points per game. Where is the freaking love here? If this is the way they are going to vote they might as well not have allstar games.
They wish they had Terry. Maybe they should bring in Smush Parker, Kirk Penny, Derrick Dial or Matt Caroll to play shooting guard. I mean if they just need somebody one dimensional like Voshon Leonard to stand there and shoot 3's, they should find some college pure shooter to the play the 2.
