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Is he not a lock? Clear #1 guy on the 5 seed Pacers, and he's obviously hitting his stride at the perfect time. Would be shocked if he's not selected.

Read a lot (forums, twitter) about him not being good enough. To be fair, mostly by random guys. But I think he deserves it. And the advanced stats seem to back it up.
 
Read a lot (forums, twitter) about him not being good enough. To be fair, mostly by random guys. But I think he deserves it. And the advanced stats seem to back it up.

I'm not thinking in terms of advanced stats...I'm just thinking it takes a very unusual situation for a solid playoff team like the Pacers to not have an All-Star. Like, it has to be an extremely balanced team with no stars, or there have to be injuries involved, or the star player has to be a defensive grinder type people don't want to see in the All-Star game. None of those things apply here.

Of course, the stats just make his case stronger. 18/13/5 is an All-Star statline, and he has the best on-off splits on the team, making it very clear that he's driving his team's success. I think it's fair to have Siakam over him as a starter, though you could argue it either way...but clearly Jimmy and Sabonis should be 1/2 off the bench IMO.
 
I'm not thinking in terms of advanced stats...I'm just thinking it takes a very unusual situation for a solid playoff team like the Pacers to not have an All-Star. Like, it has to be an extremely balanced team with no stars, or there have to be injuries involved, or the star player has to be a defensive grinder type people don't want to see in the All-Star game. None of those things apply here.

Of course, the stats just make his case stronger. 18/13/5 is an All-Star statline, and he has the best on-off splits on the team, making it very clear that he's driving his team's success. I think it's fair to have Siakam over him as a starter, though you could argue it either way...but clearly Jimmy and Sabonis should be 1/2 off the bench IMO.

I think that a good case could be made for Bam Adebayo. He's a better defender than Sabonis (can guard 1-5), although worse offensively (and has a luxury of playing with a guy like Jimmy Butler). I think both Sabonis and Adebayo should be in there. I'd put Siakam over both of them for sure, I don't have a problem with him being a starter.
 
I think that a good case could be made for Bam Adebayo. He's a better defender than Sabonis (can guard 1-5), although worse offensively (and has a luxury of playing with a guy like Jimmy Butler). I think both Sabonis and Adebayo should be in there. I'd put Siakam over both of them for sure, I don't have a problem with him being a starter.

I think Adebayo should be in there, but don't think he has a case over Sabonis. That's largely because, as you mention, he has the luxury of playing next to a bigger star in Butler. Sensible thing is to give the Pacers their first (and only) All-Star before you start thinking about second-banana All-Stars for the other teams, IMO.
 
Sabonis will get in. Brogdon was hurt too long and has fallen off a bit.

I also think Gobert gets in this year.
 
Just thinking about NBA greats after Kobe died and I think, when we all look back at LeBron's career and his absolute greatest single on-court skill, it's the skip passes. Because of his size, strength, athletic ability and vision, he can make skip passes that literally no one else in the league can make and ever has made, save for maybe Magic Johnson. It makes playing defense so much harder when the ball can just be passed all the way across the court like that.
 
Just thinking about NBA greats after Kobe died and I think, when we all look back at LeBron's career and his absolute greatest single on-court skill, it's the skip passes. Because of his size, strength, athletic ability and vision, he can make skip passes that literally no one else in the league can make and ever has made, save for maybe Magic Johnson. It makes playing defense so much harder when the ball can just be passed all the way across the court like that.

LeBron for sure the best at it. But you know what, I think Luka's skip passes are really good too. There was one pass he made recently that was just out of this world, at least for me... And he made it look so effortless, just another day in the office:

 
LeBron for sure the best at it. But you know what, I think Luka's skip passes are really good too. There was one pass he made recently that was just out of this world, at least for me... And he made it look so effortless, just another day in the office:


Seems like he's only looking at the player he's passing the ball to for 30-40% of his assists. And the only reason it's more than 0% is because it would be too predictable if he always passed to a player he's not looking at
 
Yea, that type of pass. I guess more and more players can and will be able to make it as big men practice their perimeter skills more and more at a young age.

But LeBron was really the first I can think of who started doing that. Giannis can do the same type of thing from time to time.
 
Who the fuck do the Rockets have nudes on?

Harden is out, so now Eric Gordon gets to the line 20 times? What in the world...
 
Claxton is showing lots of nice things since coming back from injury. I just love watching him. One of the most relentless guys in the league, barely any players play as hard as he does. Not to mention how awesome it is to see him defending on the perimeter, eye candy.

Rooting really hard for him to blow up.
 
The Rockets epitomize everything I dislike about the current NBA.
It's a close race for me between that style of play and superstars colluding with each other behind the scenes to team up (I know it's not officially colluding).
 
It's a close race for me between that style of play and superstars colluding with each other behind the scenes to team up (I know it's not officially colluding).
Who colluded on the Rockets?
 
Who colluded on the Rockets?
Just meant that as more "In General" with the league. Like two separate points.

1.) Finessing foul calls for easy points
2.) Players changing teams to link up with friends. Which I know isn't against the rules and I like the players have some power against the owners. But I still don't like how players dictate which handful of teams are competitive rather than front offices abilities to construct a team.
 
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