2/3 season review

[ohhaithur]

The 2/3 point of the season has become a popular judgment point for teams and players. In baseball July 31st represents represents the trade deadline, the final push and the 2/3 mark of the season.

For us, the 80th game marked the 2/3 point in the season so I'm going to give a brief review of the winners, losers, surprises and busts.

Most Valuable Player: Tracy McGrady

Scoring a whopping 30.9% of his team's points, McGrady has kept the Bulls in playoff position up until now. While his candidacy will be hurt by his new teammates who will help carry the load, TMac has had an amazing first half. The Slam Dunk Champion has put up a slash line of 29.5/8.6/4.8 while contributing 1.4 steals per contest as well. The two top performers have been 'Zo and Paul Pierce, but their teams' poor records remove them from consideration.

Rookie of the Year: Zachary Randolph

Boasting a robust 23.3/8.0/2.2 line, Randolph lead the Rookie team in the Rookie game with 14 points. He also leads all rookies in scoring and is third in rebounds. He's been the only bright spot for the Nuggets who boast a 15-31 record and have only one other scorer in double digits.

Biggest surprise: Antonio McDess

Doesn't have the jump-off-the-page attributes you'd expect, but has produced jump-off the-page numbers.

All-NBA First team:
PG: Jason Kidd
SG: Tracy McGrady
SF: Grant Hill
PF: Antonio McDyess
C: Alonzo Mourning

All-NBA Second team
PG: Damon Stoudamire
SG: Paul Pierce (Damn, 5.0 turnovers per?)
SF: Antwan Jamison
PF: Chris Webber
C: Tim Duncan

All-Defensive team:
PG: Gary Payton
SG: Doug Christie (will probably lose his spot due to PT)
SF: Bruce Bowen
PF: Jermaine O'Neal
C: Alonzo Mourning

All-Rookie team:
PG: Tony Parker
SG: Jason Richardson
SF: Shane Battier
PF: Zach Randolph
C: Eddy Curry

GM of the year: jsirr13, Toronto Raptors

[heel7tiger]

I like these type of things so I enjoyed reading this. I wish it was a little more in-depth in terms of a review but overall I can't complain.

[ohhaithur]

Yeah that's my bad. I had 55 minutes at work and I spent so much time researching who deserved the spots that I ran out of time to write recaps for them.

[dumptime]

serious hating on Duncan in this article imo

deducting points

[heel7tiger]

Jul 19, 2010 17:58:32 GMT -5 ohhaithur said:

Yeah that's my bad. I had 55 minutes at work and I spent so much time researching who deserved the spots that I ran out of time to write recaps for them.

It's not a big deal man I was just giving constructive criticism. I still thought it was well enough to get atleast a 3

[ianboyd]

Not bad except for one thing:

Eddy Curry :14.2 ppg/ 8.2 rpg/ 1.7 apg/ 0.9 spg/ 0.8 bpg

Brendan Haywood: 15.3 ppg/ 8.1 rpg/ 2.2 apg / 0.8 spg/ 1.9 bpg

for your center on the all rookie team

[ohhaithur]

Jul 19, 2010 18:00:53 GMT -5 dumptime said:

serious hating on Duncan in this article imo

deducting points

Duncan: 30.4 / 12.7 / 3.6 / 1.6 / 0.6 / 3.5 / .497 / 715
Mourning: 30.9 / 12.5 / 2.6 / 1.0 / 3.6 / 3.0 / .514 / .694

Jul 19, 2010 18:19:54 GMT -5 ianboyd said:

Not bad except for one thing:

Eddy Curry :14.2 ppg/ 8.2 rpg/ 1.7 apg/ 0.9 spg/ 0.8 bpg

Brendan Haywood: 15.3 ppg/ 8.1 rpg/ 2.2 apg / 0.8 spg/ 1.9 bpg

for your center on the all rookie team

I think I weight FG% too heavily in this case. This was the closest debate I had.

[ianboyd]

Jul 19, 2010 22:50:44 GMT -5 ohhaithur said:

Jul 19, 2010 18:00:53 GMT -5 dumptime said:

serious hating on Duncan in this article imo

deducting points

Duncan: 30.4 / 12.7 / 3.6 / 1.6 / 0.6 / 3.5 / .497 / 715
Mourning: 30.9 / 12.5 / 2.6 / 1.0 / 3.6 / 3.0 / .514 / .694

Jul 19, 2010 18:19:54 GMT -5 ianboyd said:

Not bad except for one thing:

Eddy Curry :14.2 ppg/ 8.2 rpg/ 1.7 apg/ 0.9 spg/ 0.8 bpg

Brendan Haywood: 15.3 ppg/ 8.1 rpg/ 2.2 apg / 0.8 spg/ 1.9 bpg

for your center on the all rookie team

I think I weight FG% too heavily in this case. This was the closest debate I had.

43.4% vs 45.2%?

that extra 1.8% factored that much lol?

[ohhaithur]

: patientbear :

[20/20/20/20]

Player	Points	Reb.	Assists	Steals	FG%	FT%	3PT%
Damon Stoudamire:	16.2	4.9	10.7	1.9	.438	.721	.393
Gary Payton:	18.3	4.6	8.8	2.2	.483	.758	.406
Darrell Armstrong	16.9	5.5	9.5	2.0	.443	.808	.342

Armstrong deserves consideration with the 2nd and 3rd teamers IMO.

[ohhaithur]

I don't have a 3rd team. Payton was all-defensive.

And Stoudamire/Armstrong were really close. I like my PGs to be "true PGs" and having high assist:turnover ratios so Stoudamire having more assists and fewer turnovers won out. I would have had Payton/Armstrong really close for 3rd team too. Not sure who I would have picked honestly. Probably Armstrong so I didn't get those "YOU'S A HOMER" posts.

[20/20/20/20]

Oops, didn't read close enough and thought Payton was 3rd team not defensive team.

[mj]

Rasheed not getting any love ITT

[jpripper88]

Vince Carter says, "Hey."

[jsirr13]

Good job on the article, and thanks on the GMOY recognition.