**Hornets fan alert** Someone who actually WATCHES a game! David West does deserve to be on the all-star game, he's their most consistent player, and he's been the one that has saved the Hornets from though situations Not Paul.
# Chris Paul # Kobe Bryant # Dirk Nowitzki # Tim Duncan # Yao Ming # Carlos Boozer # Baron Davis # Steve Nash # Shawn Marion # Deron Williams # David West # Andrew Bynum That's My Steam, there's no way you can tell me that Roy deserves to be on the team more than Baron or Marion. And Bynum should've been selected over Amare. Honestly, I don't even put Iverson on the team this year. It's not who scores most, it's who has the best game this year
1. How can you choose Marion over Amare, when Amare is more important to the Suns. 2. Allen Iverson was voted in, you can't change that. 3. Melo was voted in 4. Bynum won't be healthy by allstar weekend.
I don't understand why everybody is complaining about David West making the all-star team. He's been a leader on the New Orleans Hornets (best record in the west) and given them chances to win every night with his stellar player. He's one of five players averaging about 20 points, 10 rebounds.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lavalamp @ Feb 1 2008, 03:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>1. How can you choose Marion over Amare, when Amare is more important to the Suns. 2. Allen Iverson was voted in, you can't change that. 3. Melo was voted in 4. Bynum won't be healthy by allstar weekend.</div> I understand that Iverson and Melo were voted in. Personally, I think the fan vote is stupid. It's why AC Green got voted to start ahead of Mully way back when. You think that Amare is more important to the Suns, I don't. Marion does all the dirty work for the Suns. When Amare was out with his micro fracture, the team did fine without him. There's a reason they haven't dumped Marion yet, and he deserves to be an all-star this year. To all of those that think that Williams or West don't deserve to be on the team, you haven't watched much of them. The guys are playing out of their minds this year. Unfortunately, the game is about who's more popular, not who's most deserving this season. Melo isn't doing anything special this season And Bynum deserves to be named an All-star, whether or not he can play
since sometimes the fans vote kinda is off why not have it that the coaches pick the first 10 or 11 guys and the fans vote for the final 1 or 2 i dunno, just a small thought i had
That's a good idea, actually. Have the coaches pick the starting 5. Fans vote for the bench. I guess the thing I have about some of the folks playing in this all-star game is that some are not franchise players and they haven't proven themselves over the years to just get in like that. They're good players who are having really good seasons, but what about a guy who is a franchise or near-franchise player, has been good for several years, and is having a great season. I mean c'mon. When guys like Okur, AK47, Wally Sczerbiak, Antwan Jamison, Ginobilli, Kenyon Martin, and Josh Howard make the team, I'm like f, man... why not just take the top 5 winning teams with MVP candidates and pick two or three all-star teammates each from those teams so it leaves no room for other teams to get represented by their respective franchise players. BTW those guys mentioned above are good players and all, but what about one guy you can build a team around that does a lot of things? When you get guys like Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'neal, AI and Tim Duncan type MVP candidates, of course they're bringing along a teammate or two. Those are guys are the kingmakers of the all-star game. I mean damn... they should make it so guys who've been good for several years get in and make it so at least one guy from every winning or decent team is on there. It's not fair how you get 2 or 3 guys from one team show up at all-star weekend. Now I don't even want to watch because nobody is representing the Warriors.
There's an obvious coach's bias as well... I think the coaches should select the starters and the reporters the reserves. Regardless is the fans "have a voice" or not, it will still be a fun game to watch. Actually, I think it would be more entertaining to watch the most deserving players.
Having coaches vote in the Starting 5 is a bad idea because typically, there usually are 5 "clear" best players in a conference. In other words, coaches' and fans' choices will be pretty much the same. Then the next 7 players will be simply chosen by homerism. Plus, the starting 5 at the all star game are usually "universally" loved players, such as Kobe, LeBron, TD, etc. That fact itself eliminates a lot of homerism when voting for all-stars. Imagine, if fans voted for reserves, they would be full of foreign players because they get the majority vote, and players from large cap cities who will simply vote more. It would be a mess.
Another suggestion I've heard is expanding the roster to 18 or 20 players because of the issues you run into with regards to positions. What do you think of that solution?
*bump* I knew the West would lose the all-star game because they had no freakin' backup small forward. No Marion, No AK47, no Artest. Maybe the all-star selection by the coaches need to include better matchups to give them a chance to defend the small forward spot when Melo is on the bench. There's no way Roy, Kobe are battling that spot. Guys 6'9 or above in the game won't do because they're all post players. I think it'd be hilarious to see Dirk Nowitzki and David West try to guard Lebron.
he was snubbed so wat captain jack, they deserved it, look the way i see it you have to recognize players for what they do in their team, baron and captain jack have turned GSw into a legit team, and the coaches had to atleast pick one of these two, its not fair having both boozer and williams, paul and west, u gotta pick the best one outta the 2 which is why there was no space for baron or captain jack
It just seems so wrong that Baron was snubbed because of all the reasons that's been stated, but mainly because of all his community efforts in New Orleans. As much as he might be hated by the Hornets' fans, he has a home there, gave a lot to the community before and after Hurricane Katrina, and has professed his love to that town. Given the fact that David Stern and the NBA made HUGE efforts to revitalize New Orleans, it's kind of sad BD couldn't have been a part of it. It's obvious that the hated Baron is the Baron of the past but people like to hold onto the past. Shame on the NBA coaches for not voting him in, seriously.
