Mirotic in the 2015 Rising Stars Challenge

Post #1 » by **kulaz3000** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:17 pm

The NBA has announced the rosters for the 2015 Rising Stars Challenge.

USA Team
Trey Burke (Utah)
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (Detroit)
Michael Carter-Williams (Philadelphia)
Zach LaVine (Minnesota)
Shabazz Muhammad (Minnesota)
Nerlens Noel (Philadelphia)
Victor Oladipo (Orlando)
Elfrid Payton (Orlando)
Mason Plumlee (Brooklyn)
Cody Zeller (Charlotte)

World Team
Steven Adams (Oklahoma City)
Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee)
Bojan Bogdanovic (Brooklyn)
Gorgui Dieng (Minnesota)
Dante Exum (Utah)
Rudy Gobert (Utah)
Nikola Mirotic (Chicago)
Kelly Olynyk (Boston)
Dennis Schröder (Atlanta)
Andrew Wiggins (Minnesota)

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/23 ... ge-Rosters

Post #2 » by **kulaz3000** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:18 pm

The World team should dominate the USA team in the paint, but the USA definitely have the ups in terms of guards, and usually the guards have a field day in these types of games.

pylb · Post #3 » by **pylb** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:45 pm

how long has it been since we had a player participate in the rookie sophomore game

MC3 · Post #4 » by **MC3** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:46 pm

pylb wrote:how long has it been since we had a player participate in the rookie sophomore game

Since Derrick?

Flopper · Post #5 » by **Flopper** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:48 pm

pylb wrote:how long has it been since we had a player participate in the rookie sophomore game

Might've been Taj.

MC3 · Post #6 » by **MC3** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:50 pm

Flopper wrote:
pylb wrote:how long has it been since we had a player participate in the rookie sophomore game

Might've been Taj.

Yh, It was Taj. I forgot.

Post #7 » by **Payt10** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:08 am

Jimmy made it his 2nd year didn't he?

Post #8 » by **kulaz3000** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:15 am

Payt10 wrote:Jimmy made it his 2nd year didn't he?

Nope, the last time a Bull made it was Taj.

MrTwister · Post #9 » by **MrTwister** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:20 am

You would expect that he is gonna pumpfake his way againist USA bigs

JeremyB0001 · Post #10 » by **JeremyB0001** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:50 am

Wow, I think the World Team is going to crush the USA Team.

Flopper · Post #11 » by **Flopper** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:18 am

Yet another team with a deep front court where Mirotic will see limited minutes. :lol:

jc23 · Post #12 » by **jc23** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:27 am

I like this, is this the first time it's been world v usa?

samwana · Post #13 » by **samwana** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:02 am

Very much deserved NIko!
This is the first time it is world vs USA. A good change, I think I will watch that game again. Haven't watch that for ages.

SlimD235 · Post #14 » by **SlimD235** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:18 am

No Yusuf Nurkic??

Andi Obst · Post #15 » by **Andi Obst** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:16 am

SlimD235 wrote:No Yusuf Nurkic??

They didn't want to make the World Team frontcourt even better, give the Americans a chance :lol:

Jo Jo English · Post #16 » by **Jo Jo English** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:38 am

With Olynyk likely out I'd say Nurkic has a decent shot at taking his spot.

Southpaw · Post #17 » by **Southpaw** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:00 am

I like this format more than the roookie-sophs game.

Post #18 » by **GimmeDat** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:43 am

Yeah, weird Nurkic isn't in there.

Hopefully the loose game format will help Niko entertain the crowd, I'm anticipating a windmill or two, maybe a self alley-oop. #SerbianSlammer

Post #19 » by **kingkirk** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:00 am

I hope Doug McDermott changes his nationality temporarily to some Eastern European country, and makes the world team instead of Nurkic.

That would please me.

Gray Poster · Post #20 » by **Gray Poster** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:52 am

I thought Iowa was an Eastern European Country? Oh wait IOWA! Home of the Hinrichs

The world team certainly looks better on paper. Nurkic should have made it over Olynyk.