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Now that Nick is not going to the dunking competition the next thing to look at is the rookie/ sophomore game.

The rookies in contention are Horford, Sean williams, Scola, Green, Yi, Durant, Moon, Thornton, Navarro, Conley, cook. I think Durant qualifies as a shooting gaurd, cook also comes close to being picked over Nick but his team has a bad record. Conley has good assist numbers and the game may need a pass first pg but he hasn't played that many games.

BTW thanks wermol for PM-ing the mods about activating my account, It'll be nice to settle in and talk basketball among fellow wiz fans

He might get overlooked because he is a Wizard and that's what happens. He should be in the game over guys like Brewer and Jeff Green.

I hope so, it would be great to see Nick in the game.

These guys are locks:

1) Durant
2) Yi
3) Horford
4) Moon
5) JCN

Hopefully N1 gets to go.

I think that Young should make it over Conley because Mike has missed a lot of games so far this season, and Young has been playing really well of the bench.

I think he will. It's a tough call, but I think he'll be picked as the fourth backcourt guy, behind Durant, Navarro, and Conley.

He'd better make it man...I hat the fact that the Wizards always get skipped over on All Star Weekend (except for Gil in the 3 pt shoot outs).

i would assume he would make it. Here's who i would have on the rookie team right now:

Yi/S.Williams
Horford/Green
Durant/Moon
Brewer/Young
Navarro/Conley

looks like a pretty good team.

sophomores:


Aldridge/T.Thomas
Bargnani/C.Smith
Gay/Brewer
Roy/Farmar
Rondo/Lowry

i definitely have to pick the soph's in this one, if my teams are remotely right. Durant will play well of course, but with 2 people (Gay and Roy) being the leading scorer on their team, it looks pretty dim for the Rooks in this one.

9 players per squad Young odd man out.

plus I think you left out Louis Scola and Daequan cook. Also Al thornton is another person to consider. I think it comes to how many front court and Back court players they pick. But I think its pretty damn close and thats going to be the decider unless they totally throw that out the window to include someone. All those rookies are getting minutes on sucky teams

He better. What do you guys see as career ceiling, stats wise?

Harry Heinous wrote:He better. What do you guys see as career ceiling, stats wise?

Hard to tell. If we're going based on potential, he could be as good as 20-25ppg, 2-4rebs, 1-2asts, 1stl, or as bad as 10-12ppg, 1-2rrebs, 1ast, 0.5stls.

Nick should get the backup guard spot. On a per-40 his numbers are just as good, if not better, than JCN. And I like Gasol's escort! Of course, he isnt gettign the minutes right now, so that may hold him back.

Nick's been wearing the Air Bakins

well it's official he's not in the game. Hope it lights a fire under him and he proves he's better than most of the other players in that draft. Some of us thought he'd suck and hated the draft, well anyway less than half a season and the flashes hes shown are not bad. I just look forward to his improvement if theoretically this is the worst we'll see him play. Arenas says it'll take four years for his mentality to change at which point he'll be arenas age and one year younger than Moon whos in the rookie challenge. If oden was healthy I wonder which rookie that made it would have been overlooked

I'm voting no.

On what basis should he be on the squad? I voted no.

On the basis that he's the best shooting guard of his draft class. He also has had reasonable minutes on a squad that has a good record so he can't be sent out there to chuck. Scores efficiently and has been relied on to play both guard spots. Also in a few years he'll be one of the best guards from his draft and possibly an elite shooting guard

The only reason I didnt think he'd make it is because theres a bunch of rookies that are getting alot of minutes due to age or experience, (navarro, scola, Moon) who a year from now will have to compete against fellow 28 year olds and be accurately dated.Durant is playing out of position and is highly relied on so he makes a guard spot, Conley i the only passing guard and he hasnt played that many games really. It's only case he was drafted high as a point guard and had one or two good games. Young has played point for us in our system but thats different.
I just wonder who would have been left out if Oden played. All these guys who got drafted years agonare playing in the rookie challenge kind of defeats the purpose. PLay in your draft year. What is Oden going to play for, is he going to play as a rookie against Durant next year? Cause he really hasnt seen the NBA floor yet

Wages of Wins says that NY1 is the 11th worst player in the league thus far. Fortunately, Larry Hughes is 13th!

(Caron is 11th best, Antawn 29th.)