Thursday, May 19, 2005
All NBA Teams Released
The NBA finally released their All NBA teams today.
About two weeks ago, I predicted the teams. I did pretty well.
Here were my picks, with the bold ones being correct and the wrong ones being struck out with the actual player.
All NBA 1st Team
Nash
Iverson
Nowitzki
Shaq
All NBA 2nd Team
Wade
Garnett
Stoudemire
All NBA 3rd Team
Arenas
Marion
B. Wallace
All in all, I did a pretty good job, getting 10 of the 15 on the right teams. The only person I didn't put on any team that made it was Ray, in place of Paul Pierce. I'd probably agree with putting Ray over Pierce at 3rd Team, but I'd move McGrady ahead of Ray at 2nd Team.
Placing Duncan on the 3rd Team was definitely an oversight, although clearly his team's success had more to do with getting him on 1st Team than his numbers, which weren't all that good this year. I couldn't have predicted the NBA 1st Team putting 7'1 Dirk Nowitzki on the team basically as a 3, and I think LeBron should have been on the 1st Team in Duncan's place.