[Toronto16Participant]

http://www.nba.com/2011/allstar/2011/02/01/rookie-challenge/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1

ROOKIE TEAM ROSTER

Eric Bledsoe L.A. Clippers G 6-1 195 Kentucky
DeMarcus Cousins Sacramento C 6-11 270 Kentucky
Derrick Favors New Jersey F 6-10 246 Georgia Tech
Landry Fields New York G 6-7 210 Stanford
Blake Griffin L.A. Clippers F 6-10 251 Oklahoma
Wesley Johnson Minnesota G 6-7 205 Syracuse
Greg Monroe Detroit C 6-11 250 Georgetown
Gary Neal San Antonio G 6-4 210 Towson State
John Wall Washington G 6-4 195 Kentucky

Mike Budenholzer — San Antonio Spurs
Amar’e Stoudemire — New York Knicks
Kevin McHale — NBA TV/ TNT analyst

SOPHOMORE TEAM ROSTER

DeJuan Blair San Antonio C 6-7 265 Pittsburgh
DeMar DeRozan Toronto G 6-7 220 USC
Stephen Curry Golden State G 6-3 185 Davidson
Tyreke Evans Sacramento G 6-6 220 Memphis
Taj Gibson Chicago F 6-9 225 USC
Jrue Holiday Philadelphia G 6-4 180 UCLA
Serge Ibaka Oklahoma City F-C 6-10 235 Brazzaville, Rep. of Congo
Brandon Jennings Milwaukee G 6-1 169 Lottomatica Virtus Roma
Wesley Matthews Portland G 6-5 220 Marquette

Head Coach — TBD
Carmelo Anthony — Denver Nuggets
Steve Kerr — TNT NBA basketball analyst

 

In my opinion, Rookies are going to win

[NickWayne87Participant]

I’m with you on that lol…..

[Quincey Hodges]

Soph win and its not close

[SwatLakeCityParticipant]

 Rookies but only because they have Blake Griffin. If he wasn’t injured all last year, the Sophomores would just destroy this team.

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

Evan Turner… Smh.

[mgreener_34Participant]

 Idk about that one Quincey. Blake, Wall, and Cousins are already the best players in this game. Who’s going to guard those guys? Rookies are taking this one, and it’ll probably be the first time I bother watching one of these things. 

[RUDEBOY_Participant]

Hold On before Yall Hand the Rookies the game..But it’s going to be Fun Watching Wall Tossing up Alley Oops to Blake though….

The Sophomores seem more mature..The backcourt of Evans,Jennings & Curry should put alot of points on the board…

Blair & Gibson Against Blake & Cousins should be Interesting to Watch…The Sopomores have better defenders in Matthews and Ibaka ….

[IndianaBasketballParticipant]

DeJuan Blair actually defends Blake Griffin pretty well, while also giving him baskets of his own. And other than Wall, the sophomores have a big time advantage at guard.

I think Ibaka can defend Cousins.

This is going to be a good game. Rookies might have the best highlight plays, but the sophomores could get the victory.

[Quincey Hodges]

The rookies have how many guys that are good defenders?

Blake-negitive

Cousins-nope

WAll- dont think so

You see what tyreke did last year?..Blair on the boards and scoring

Ibaka is a good defender

Jennings

Taj

Steph.   Theres a reason the Sophs win most of the time. That one extra year of playing in the NBA goes a long way.

Derozen

[I May Be WrongParticipant]

got left off the rookies. Yes, he’s struggled but he’s been playing better last 10 games. Neal’s been good but i thought maybe they’d pick Turner over him to be honest. Oh well, maybe next year

But i’ll take the Sophs for the win. I hope they limit Griffins minutes cuz I hope he saves the best for the Dunk Contest lol

[B EazyParticipant]

Since when did anyone play defense in these games?? D wont really be a factor like you are thinking

[Lotto StudParticipant]

My favorites to win MVP on the squad wins

Rookies-John Wall  Sophomores-DeMar DeRozan

 

Who are your favorites to win it?

*Try to go out on a limb & pick someone other than Blake Griffin which I know would be hard.

[Tongue-Out-Like-23Participant]

If I can’t pick Blake to win MVP, I would say Landry Fields or Wesley Matthews

[Quincey Hodges]

Its a factor when it comes to winning the game at the end. Which is probably why the sophs usually win the games. That and that extra year of experience

[Quincey Hodges]

MVP will be a guard. The guys who have the ball in there hands the most unless a big man gets a bunch of rebounds

[dmo21Participant]

Ed Davis left off the rookie list… He has been playing pretty damn good and would add some nice defense to this team.

[DanEboyParticipant]

Griffin will not be playing if he gets an All Star nod.

[shannon92Participant]

Tyreke for MVP? isnt he is best at putting points on the board on the court ?

[Wavy BagelsParticipant]

look up what happened last year…..Evans & Blair was a badass combo in that game…im goin with the sophs

[omphalosParticipant]

I’m calling DeRozan to have a huge game. He’s been on a scoring tear lately, and with minimal D expected from this game he could light it up, plus, he has more to prove than most of the names on the soph list.

[kaceyParticipant]

You all seem to be oblivious to the fact that Blake might not be playing in this game if he gets an AS nod.

Who do you all think takes his spot, if Blake plays in the AS game instead? I guess ET or PPat?

[IknoBall12Participant]

im takin the sophs team. i think they will suprise people and win. Not that the rookies arent good but theres a reason tyreke was ungaurdable last year. The same will happen this year. And Blake and them will get their points and higlights but i jus feel the sophs will play more of a team game and get the win

[ChrischiParticipant]

Last year I would have bet 1000$ on the sophomores. I would have never thought that a bunch of guards could beat Love, Lopez and Beasley and the rookie class really wasn’t that good anyways.

[Snubs15Participant]

Yeah im upset Ed Davis was left out. The raptors rookie gets left out of this game 2 years in a row now.

8 pts and 8 reb per game in his past 10 is not bad especially when he never gets his number called on offense. and his overall season numbers are better than favours and hes in the game. Hell be in it next year for sure though.

Im picking sophomores to win for the obvious reason of having more experience and as much as i would like to see derozan win mvp i dont see that happening so im going with tyreke. If rookies do win i think Wall gets it.

 

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