올스타 선발 논란속 홀링거(홀린저)아저씨가 뽑은 All-Star Starters

[red dawn]

올스타 선발로 갑론을박 얘기가 많은 가운데 홀링거(홀린저)아저씨가 자기가 뽑은 올스타 선발선수를 전격 발표했습니다.

4차원에서 살고계신 분 답지 않게 이번 자료는 대부분 수긍이 가네요.

서부도 후덜덜 하긴 하지만 동부가 너무 강해보이는건 왜일까요...ㅠㅠ

웨이드-르브론-가넷-어깨뽕 라인..ㅠㅠ

서부컨퍼런스

PG : 크리스 폴 -- SG : 코비 브라이언트 -- SF : 덕 노비츠키 -- PF : 팀 던컨 -- C : 야오 밍

동부컨퍼런스

PG : 데빈 해리스 -- SG : 드웨인 웨이드 -- SF : 르브론 제임스 -- PF : 케빈 가넷 -- C : 드와잇 하워드

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올스타 스타터에 대한 논란이 일고있지만 팬들은 코비와 르브론이 올스타선발로 나오는것에 대해서만은 이견이 없는 듯 하다.

Western Conference

Point guard: Chris Paul, Hornets
This is one of the easiest picks on the ballot. Paul is the premier point guard in the game, leading the league in steals and assists and, halfway through the season, posting the best Player Efficiency Rating mark of any point guard in history.

Paul's 30.13 PER through Wednesday's games is MVP-caliber, as is his stat line of 21.2 points, 11.1 assists and 49.9 percent shooting. So is the fact the Hornets are in the West's top four at the halfway point despite having only one other player above the league average in PER.

Shooting guard: Kobe Bryant, Lakers
The Lakers star does more with eight fingers than almost anyone else does with 10, shrugging off last season's broken pinkie and Monday's finger dislocation. He is the league's third-leading scorer and has put L.A. far ahead of the pack in the Western Conference.

Bryant ranks seventh in PER and has dialed up his effort at the defensive end. Always a fourth-quarter force on D, his focus in the first three quarters has been notable as well this season -- it is one of many reasons the Lakers are much improved overall at that end.

Small forward: Dirk Nowitzki, Mavericks
If you wanted to be real technical and pick an actual small forward from the West, you'd be awfully disappointed. The best small forward in the conference this season has probably been either Kevin Durant or Andrei Kirilenko, neither of whom has any business being in Phoenix this February. And if not constrained by ballot restrictions, Brandon Roy would be a fine choice here to complement Kobe on the wings.

But we're limited by the ballot, and a quick glance at the available forwards reveals Nowitzki as the best candidate to slide down to the 3. Though the Mavs have been a disappointment, Dirk has taken care of business, with the second-highest 40-minute scoring rate of his career and the league's ninth-best PER. And it's easy to forget that "disappointment" is a relative term (especially after Wednesday night's 34-point loss to the Bucks) -- the Mavs are 24-18, which ain't chopped liver.

Power forward: Tim Duncan, Spurs
OK, time for my annual rant on position semantics: We have to start differentiating between what teams call a player and where he actually plays on the floor. If the Spurs want to call Duncan a forward or the Knicks want to call Jared Jeffries a center they're more than welcome, but that doesn't mean we have to follow along like sheep. Duncan guards centers, centers guard him and he plays the spot on the floor normally occupied by centers. For every purpose of interest to a fan or an analyst, he's a center.

Nonetheless, he's on the ballot as a forward, and at either position he's a home-run selection to be in the West's starting five. Duncan has quietly been the backbone of San Antonio's D more than ever this season, as the Spurs have left him as the lone shot-blocker on the front line. And he also took on a major early-season workload to keep the Spurs afloat while Tony Parker and Ginobili were out.

Duncan is a quiet fifth in the NBA in PER, and the Spurs are an equally quiet second in the West. Duncan sports career highs in shooting percentage (51.4 percent) and assist ratio, as well as his highest scoring average in five years at 20.4.

Center: Yao Ming, Rockets
So much for the idea that he can't stay healthy. With teammates dropping like flies around him, the sharpshooting giant has played 42 of 43 games for Houston to keep the Rockets near the leaders in the West at 27-16.

Speaking of offense, Yao's 54.4 percent shooting from the field and 86.7 percent mark from the line are both career highs, giving him the highest true shooting percentage of any player in the top 35 in PER. But that tells only part of the story. He's using his size to impact games on the defensive end nearly as much as he does on offense.

Eastern Conference

Point guard: Devin Harris, Nets
Fans will end up botching the point guard spot in both conferences, as Allen Iverson will be the choice of fandom instead of the far more deserving Harris.

One can also argue for Orlando's Jameer Nelson here -- certainly he has had a lot more success on the team level -- but Harris' greyhound routine has turned an expected laughingstock into a playoff hopeful at the season's midway point. He's 12th overall and second only to Chris Paul among point guards with a 23.16 PER, and his average of more than nine free throw attempts a game is absurd for a point guard. In addition, it's hard to give too much weight to Nelson's W's without also taking note of the several last-second shots that Harris has made to lead the Nets to a win.

Shooting guard: Dwyane Wade, Heat
If the NBA still gave out its Comeback Player of the Year Award, Wade would be a shoo-in to win it. After an injury-ravaged 2007-08 season had all of us wondering whether we would ever see the Wade from the 2006 Finals again, he has provided an emphatic answer in the affirmative.

On a Heat team with few other threats to command attention, Wade is leading the league in scoring and is third in PER. And he has Miami poised to make the playoffs after finishing with the league's worst record last season. It's all quite a turnaround for a player who limped through 51 games each of the past two seasons -- he hasn't missed a single outing so far in 2008-09.

Small forward: LeBron James, Cavs
The easiest position to fill on the ballot, as James is threatening to break the record for PER and his Cavs are vying for the best record in the East.

I won't dwell here since I just got done lauding him a few hours ago, but suffice it to say that anyone leaving this oval blank on his or her ballot has some serious explaining to do.

Power forward: Kevin Garnett, Celtics
Most of the choices on this list were relatively easy; this is the one exception. Splitting hairs among Garnett and Chris Bosh is tough, especially when both are birds of a feather as long, lean power forwards who like to play away from the basket.

Bosh's numbers are superior in most respects. He has a better PER (23.27 to 21.34); he has played substantially more minutes (38.6 to 32.6); and his team's inferior win-loss record is easily explained away by comparing the people that surround them.

But Garnett is the ultimate choice for the simple reason that his intensity at the defensive end still percolates through the rest of the roster, allowing the Celtics to be among the league's elite teams at that end even while taking opponents' best shot every night. In the end, their numbers are close enough that the D puts KG over the top.

Center: Dwight Howard, Magic
A no-brainer given that (A) he's the best player on the team with the best record at 33-8, and (B) the East doesn't have a single other credible All-Star at the center position.

In continuing his ascension to superstardom, Howard is fourth in PER and leads the league in both blocks and rebounds. He's a strong threat to win the Defensive Player of the Year award and figures to be in the top five in the MVP vote as well.

[써클댄스4쉬드]

이 아저씨 오랜만에 개념

[HEAT!Shaq32]

웨이드에 대한 첫문장. 사람 괜찮네?

[No.15 Air NewJersey]

해리스 홀링거 아저씨가 뽑아줬는데 좀 다시 살아나보자 요새 좀 주춤한데

[스터키]

동부 쩐다 .. 포인트가드에서 중압감이 좀 떨어지긴하지만 저라인은 ㅎㄷㄷ

[red dawn]

해리스가 다소 의외긴 한데 동부 정말 환상라인이죠..ㅠㅠ

[가넷 보수동주민센터로 변경]

포가자리에 빅샷이 있었으면 더없이 ㅎㄷㄷ했을듯싶네요..

[Steve nash]

서부가 더 좋아보이는데요;;

[Third Eye]

이분은 가끔 폭주하는 글의 임팩트가 너무 강해서, 대다수의 나머지 무난한 글들이 뭍히죠. ㅎㅎㅎㅎ

[red dawn]

르브론 소개글이 가장 짧군요..설명이 필요없다는 거냐

[Leiwoorong]

해리스 모야..;;

[Sugar Ray]

해리스를 대신한다면 누가 어울릴까요?

[Leiwoorong]

근데 막상 찾아보니 별로 없네요...;;; 동부는 PG가...

[GO! Spurs GO!]

동부 최고의 포가는 현재 비비 아닌가여??? 전 비비라고 생각하는데....

[Leiwoorong]

넹... 해리스보다는 비비가 낫겠죠...^^

[Nujabes]

안드레 밀러도있네요..

[에휴]

전서부가 더 무섭네요.. 빈틈없는 라인업;;

[쥐띠용]

동부가 왠지 ㅎㄷㄷ해보이는데...서부가 이길거 같네요

[Kanoth]

정상인인척 하기는;;

[A.I.answer]

아이고... 답형.. 해리스한테 밀렸구나..ㅋㅋ 안습

[허지말어]

해리스>?

[GO! Spurs GO!]

데빈 해리스;;........ 비비가 더 낫을 듯.... 갠적으로 저 라인업이라면 서부의 승리를.... 포가에서 차이가 너무 나내요....

[Untouchables]

근데 올스타전은 선수들이 너무 설렁설렁 해서 라인업으로 따지긴 힘든 것 같습니다. 그 날 누가 더 진지하게 게임에 임하나 또 누가 필받았나에 따라서 다른 것 같아요

[I LOVE AI]

해리스 에러입니다. 비비 강추.

[sir-bk]

서부가 이길것 같은데요. 하워드는 야오 앞에선 뭘 하는걸 본 기억이 없고, 던컨, 노비츠키 vs 가넷, 르브론은 비슷하다고 보고, 코비, 폴 vs 웨이드, 해리스도 역시 서부 우위...

[Spurs4all]

서부가 강해보이는데 ;

[분노코비]

서부가 이길 라인업;

[[LAL]크리스밈]

하워드가 야오밍에게 굉장히 약하고... 아무리 르브론이라지만...노비츠키와의 대결은;; 게다가 코비 폴 vs 웨이드 해리스는;; 웨이드가 잘한다고 해도...;; 서부가 이길 것 같습니다. 포가에서 차이가 너무 크고, 센터도 대결전력상 차이가 있고, 르브론대 노비츠키도...=_= 차이가 난다고 보고

[Unlucky MDE]

요즘같아선 노비츠키가 우위라고 보긴 힘들것같지만 르브론이 노비츠키를 막을수 있을것같진 않네요. 던컨 가넷도 버거운데..

[red dawn]

정녕 가넷과 던컨이 한팀에서 뛰는모습은 볼수없단 말인가..

[FELIX]

서부가 정말 ㅎㄷㄷ 인데.. 하워드 야오밍과 맞대결에선 성적 그닥 좋지 않은걸로 알고있는데 아닌가요 던컨 ㅎㄷㄷ에 사키츠키에 mr.81에 pg에선 압도할거같고..

[FELIX]

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