Who will win ROY next year?
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Who will win ROY next year?
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Who will win ROY next year?
Next year should have an amazing class of rookies and future all stars, who is your pick for ROY?
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I'd say Beasley. Oden is gonna have to adjust to the NBA pace having major surgery and having not played a game in a long time. Rose is a pg and it usually takes some time for pgs to get minutes since they have a lot of work to do before they can execute sets the coaches want to run. I don't think Mayo can outperform Beasley.
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bstein14 wrote:A lot of it will depend on the opportunity just as much as the player.
Obviously a player who goes to Miami might not get the touches (because of Wade/Marion) that a player going to Minny might get.
Agreed.
You have to factor in:
(1) Preseason hype (a big plus for Greg Oden, Beasley and Rose);
(2) role on new team (scoring opportunities are the biggest factor here - remember how long it was before the media dropped Adam Morrison as the leading ROY candidate?);
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(3) Inseason exposure (Rose on the Knicks gets a lot more attention than Rose in Memphis).
Those factors will make the difference between similarly successful rookies for ROY.
If I had to guess, I would go with Oden since he will be on a successful team with a ton of hype and he has legit skills.
