Who Should Replace Rondo and Who Got Snubbed

OK folks I needed a few days to digest and think over who shouldn’t and should’ve been on the All Star teams. I hear people say all the time who they think should be on, but hardly anyone wants to say who shouldn’t. You’ll here one guy say “such and such should’ve made the team”. Then the other analysts asks who would you take off and there’s never an answer to who should come off only more argument for why such and such should be in.

Allow me starting in the west and I can’t front in the only person not deserving is Dwight Howard. The fans decide that and I can’t front as far as excitement for an All Star game I can understand the vote by the fans, but c’mon. He’s on a losing team and there are other deserving big men in the west who should be going, like Marc Gasol, DeAndre Jordan, and Serge Ibaka. All of these guys are at least on winning teams.

Marc is as dominant a big man as there is. No he’s not a highlight film, but his numbers and team wins speak for itself. Jordan is just as if not more exciting than Howard and check this out, his teams a contender. Finally Iblocka, fat hops and again chasing the blocks title.

After all of that being said though, you have Tim Duncan, Blake Griffin, LaMarcus Aldridge, David Lee, and Big Zack Randolph. The West doesn’t need another big man, so why are the coaches shafting the hottest kid on the breakout team of the year. Stephen Curry, who without a doubt should be in this game.

He’s averaging 21 points and 7 assists and his team is fifth in the west, after finishing third from the bottom last year with a 23-43 record. This year they’ve already won 27 games, and I’m with Mark Jackson on this one. I also say Howard out Curry in.

If not Steph, then Jamal Crawford should’ve been selected. Oh my damn have you seen him? The funny thing is Crawford has been a killer on every team he’s been on. I remember him igniting the Bulls, then the Knicks, Blazers, and the Warriors always a consistent killer. In Atlanta that system spread the ball too much for him.

He’s a “Give’em the greenlight coach” type of player and you see him night in and night out given it to teams and he’s no doubt the 6th Man of the Year period. 17 points off the bench, and in the absence of CP3 he’s been the man for the Clippers with no disrespect to Blake Griffin. Let’s be real Blake couldn’t carry the team with Crawford.

On to the East My God!!! No Rondo this hurts as bad as when we lost Derrick Rose. It didn’t matter if you were a Bulls fan or not you loved watching Rose get busy on the court and it killed us when he went out, because we knew we were being robbed of a great performance (thank the lord he’ll be back soon).

We’ll get more into the future of Boston tomorrow, right now we’re talking All star and in my opinion J.R. Smith has to be on this team. When Melo was down he stepped up.

When Raymond Felton went down he stepped up. He brings the energy, the swag, the it factor that ignites the Knicks the way Crawford does the Clippers. He’s hit a few clutch shots and is getting better by the week.

Another man that needs to be considered, if you’re going to put Howard on the West, then you have to put Paul Pierce on in the East. You have KG, you had Rondo, but not the leading scorer and clutch man from the team they play for? That’s ridiculous. With Rondo down replace him with his teammate.

Lastly three guys that should’ve been considered all from the 4th ranked team in the east, and we know how bad they were last year. Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez and Derron Williams. Lopez has been the most consistent, but he was hurt most of the season. Joe Johnson has been the go to man, when Williams get’s the ball to him.

Speaking of Williams he’s more of a scoring point guard so his assists aren’t as high as you’d want from a player of his caliber. And his numbers are down this year, but his team has gone from bottom feeder to top 4. That can’t go unnoticed. However when two coaches are fired in three years on two different teams you play on… Let’s just say don’t think for a moment the coaches don’t have their own fraternity, and don’t think for a moment that in certain instances they don’t stick together.

In the East the guys chosen are all well deserving, except for one mistake. Kyrie Irving. He’s averaging 24 points 6 assts a game those are great numbers, but his team’s damn near at the bottom of the pit. He’s got some excitement about him when you watch him, no question. But in his second year? Really?

Three names I just have to throw out there that I think were better than Irving in their second year’s in the league. LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Carmelo Anthony. These guys were killing it in their second years, and none of them made the team at that time. And no one can tell me that Irving’s having a better sophomore year than those guys did. Irving out, any of the aforementioned in.