1. Al Thornton 2. Al Horford 3. Kevin Durant 4. Luis Scola 5. Aaron Gray 6. Rodney Stuckey 7. Marco Belinelli 8. Juan Carlos Navarro 9. Oleksiy Pecherov 10. Joakim Noah</p> Honorable Mention: Aaron Affalo, Corey Brewer, Nick Fazekas, Jeff Green, Taureen Green, Acie Law IV, Dominic McGuire, Darius Washington, Yi Jianlian, Nick Young.</p> http://www.nba.com/rookies/rankings.html</p>
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Al Thronton is going to be a beast. With no Brand, he will step up and play big minutes. Horford's spot is well deserved for his great play thus far. I think Law should be higher, but there have been better players I guess.</p>
Ummm...where's Demetris Nichols and Sean Williams? This list is so messed up. Aaron Gray too!! That's despicable.</p> People were saying If it weren't for Durant and Oden, Thornton would be the most NBA ready player in the draft. In fact, including the top two picks, he prolly still was most NBA ready. And most athletic. Not to mention...most gay sounding </p>
Sean Williams 4.0 PPG 3.0 RPG, Demetris Nichols 3.5 PPG 1.0 RPG, Aaron Gray 10.2 PPG 5.5 RPG.</p> Doesn't seem so messed up to me.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Sean Williams 4.0 PPG 3.0 RPG, Demetris Nichols 3.5 PPG 1.0 RPG, Aaron Gray 10.2 PPG 5.5 RPG.</p> Doesn't seem so messed up to me.</p> </div></p> </p> haha, sorry, I was just kidding.</p> And it did seem last year stats did make the winner. If you bring in other things such as who made a difference on their team, it wouldn't have been Roy, it would've been and probably should've been Bargagni.</p>
Rookie of the year is probably the most stats dependant award.</p> Like in 2005, Ben Gordon should have been the ROY. He had the stats to compete with Okafor (same scoring average). While Okafor had good other stats, like his rebounding and blocks...Gordon was leading the NBA in double digit 4th quarters, and hit a number of game winners. If it was MVP, and those were the two situations (Gordon also led his team to the playoffs), Gordon would win the MVP.</p> But ROY is a stats beast.</p>
^ Yeah, it's based on what the rookies did during the pre-season. Not how they think they will do at the end of the season.</p>
