ROY Debate
Rookie of the Year Debate? What debate? Someone recently posted a question about the Rookie of the Year. From the start, I said it would be Brandon Roy. He was the most polished player coming out, could consistently score in a variety of ways, could play three positions, and other than Morrison, was the only player who showed any passion during his senior year in college.
Sure enough, coming down the home stretch, no one has really made a run at Roy other than the late surge by Il Muggo in Toronto.
More importantly, is this going to go down as the most disappointing draft since the year that Mike Miller won the Rookie of the Year? I hope not. Perhaps we have been spoiled recently with the likes of Chris Paul, Ben Gordon, Emeko Okafor, LeBron, Wade, ‘Melo, and Dwight Howard. Then again, last year’s crop seemed thin until Derron Williams dropped twenty pounds and started playing like an MVP candidate in his second year.
Maybe we will have to wait another year or two before giving this class the dubious honor of matching the Mike Miller or Joe Smith draft classes. But for now, it doesn’t look great, especially with Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Acie Law IV, Dorrell Arther, Tito Horford, Corey Brewer, et. al. nipping at their heels.
Below are my current standings for the first and second All Rookie Teams:
First:
G - Brandon Roy
G - Randy Foye
F - Jorge Garbajosa
F - Andrea Bargnani
C - Paul Milsap*
Second:
G - Rajon Rondo
G - Daniel Gibson
F - Adam Morrison
F - LaMarcus Aldridge
C - Craig Smith*
*Not real centers, but, then again, you could make the argument that there are no real centers anymore.
