Durant & Green make All Rookie Team

[Det the Threat]

Kevin Durant of the Seattle SuperSonics and Al Horford of the Atlanta Hawks headline a talented group of rookies named to the 2007-08 T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie Team, the NBA announced today. Horford, the only player unanimously voted to the 2007-08 T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie Team, finished with 58. Durant, winner of the 2007-08 T-Mobile Rookie of the Year award, received a total of 57 votes.

Rounding out the T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie First Team are Houston

[yearsago]

Someone seriously left Durant off the All-Rookie team?

[djthesonicsfan]

Excellent!

K Durant was a lock. I'd like to find out who is the joker who didn't caste their vote for him to be on the team.

As for J Green, I think the honor was well deserved, but I have to admit I thought Jamario Moon, Juan Navarro or Thaddeus Young were going to be selected instead because they all seemed to get way more press all year. Particularly J Moon.

No arguments on A Horford, L Scola or A Thorton being named to the 1st team. They all deserved it. Except I hardly consider L Scola a rookie.

Who would've thought at the beginning of the year that Mike Conley and Yi Jianlian would have both missed out? Not me.

Things are looking bright for the Sonics... now if we can just draft D Rose & get the team back from Bennett.

[djthesonicsfan]

Yes. Seriously. Must have been Charles Barkley.

[yearsago]

That doesn't make any sense. oh well.

[BBen]

Yeah, Scola and Navarro are both 28. How can you treat those guys the same way as 18-22 year olds?

[Yoshi2kx]

Moon is like 27/28 IIRC too

[Yoshi2kx]

Yes. Seriously. Must have been Charles Barkley.

Head coaches are the ones who vote

and I think no one left him off either team, they aren't allowed to vote for anyone on their own team, leaving 29 votes to go around

[djthesonicsfan]

Yes, you're right on the voting. I found this link on the NBA's main page...

http://www.nba.com/news/all_rookie_080513.html

"The voting panel consisted of the NBA

[yearsago]

Its unreal that Durant did not get 29 first team votes.

I agree it was most likely Woodson.

[HeavyP]

On the times blog Percy Allen made some calls, and although who votes for whom will not be released, he does not think it was Woodson. He thinks it was Maurice Cheeks.

[yearsago]

Did Cheeks put one of his own players in the top 5 or something?

[wiff]

To be honest I'm a bit surprised that Green made first team.

But I'm even more surprised Philly fan isn't in here banging on Green complaining that Thad Young didn't make 1st team.

Green did have slighty better numbers but also logged in quite a few more minutes.

[bruno sundov]

How did green play for you guys this year?

[BenjaminH]

Well.

[kjtruong]

How did green play for you guys this year?

I said this in another thread...but I think it's worth repeating since it's an interesting statistic...

In January he averaged 8-3 in 27 minutes.
In April he averaged 16-6 in 37 minutes.

I'll be happy if he averages 16-6 for next season with his numbers toward the end of the season in the 18-20pt range and 6-8 reb range. That would be an optimistic outlook. Conservative estimate would be 17pts-7rebs, which is acceptable too.

[whitedolemite]

[quote="kjtruong"][/quote]
I think your conservative estimate is pretty optimistic, though I'd love it if you were right. Greens April outputs were skewed by a couple of fast paced games against teams playing no D (Den and GS). I'd say a conservative estimate would be 13-14pts and 6-7reb in about 32-34mpg, hopefully with improved D and passing.

[RiseoftheSonics]

I don't think it's pretty optimistic, but I could see Green averaging 15 and 7, throwing in a block, a steal and 2.5 assist a game, he a great role player and a very good third option. Durant is the first option and we need two more guys who can average some good points.