The majority of people, ESPN included agree that four of the All-Americans should be: logan, williams, gooden and dixon, the question is who should be the 5th all american and who would be your second team? my fifth would be Dickeau from Gonzaga and my second team would be as follows: Jacobsen, Brandon Knight, michael Sweetney (i am biased on this one), Dunleavy and Sam Clancy.. what do you guys think?
F- Drew Gooden F/G- Casey Jacobson G- Juan Dixon G- Steve Logan G- Jason Willams Honorable mention inlcudes Mike Dunleavy, David West and Jared Jeffries.
No need for a caveat on Sweetney...dude is a beast around the basket. He's put up 20/10 in Big East conf play & almost that for the season. Shoots 80% from the line also! Not sure if he's serious pro material (reminds me of Robert Traylor), but he's definitely a great college player.
I agree with this 5. Honerable mention to Sam Clancy, Dickeau (sp), Lynn Greer (this guy is tough and IMO a better player on a worse team than Dickeau's), Domercant (if this is the guy I remember from last year), Ely (will never get respect because of fools hating his coach), Prince and Jason Gardner (he is slightly better college player and more valuable than Walton) In truth if another Duke player gets on it should be Boozer IMO. He scores more, rebounds more, and shoots a higher % from the field (Boozer leads the ACC) and from the line than Dunleavy. They are both very good college players (maybe 3rd team all american level), but I give the very slight nod to Boozer right now even though Dunleavy gets an extra APG and 2 extra SPG. Nonetheless I think Dunleavy will get more press and consideration for factors that have nothing to do with court performance. OH, I'll take ya'lls word on Sweetney, I just haven't seen him play and can't comment.
Since I follow Big 12 basketball alot, here's my first team: C- David Harrison (Colorado) F- Drew Gooden (Kansas) F- Kareem Rush (Missouri) G- Kirk Hinrich (Kansas) G- Hollis Price (Oklahoma)
Instead of just picking 5 guys, regardless of position played, I tried to fit them into the confines of an actual team (i.e. can't have 2 PG, 2 SG & a SF). Here's my list: FIRST TEAM: PG - Steve Logan, Cincy (22.6 ppg, 5.5 ast, 40% 3-pt, 88% ft) SG - Juan Dixon, Maryland (19.2 ppg, 4.9 reb, 3.1 stl, 91% ft) SF - Jarred Jeffries, Indiana (16.3 ppg, 7.8 reb, 43% 3-pt, 1.5 blk) PF - Mike Dunleavy, Duke (17.8 ppg, 7.3 reb, 49.5% fg) C - Drew Gooden, Kansas (20.7 ppg, 11.2 reb, 1.2 blk, 2.1 stl) SECOND TEAM PG - Dan Dickau, Gonzaga (20.8 ppg, 5 ast, 48% 3-pt) SG - Jason Williams, Duke (21.3 ppg, 5.3 ast, 65.2% FT) SF - Casey Jacobsen, Stanford (22.5 pts, 40% 3-pt) PF - Sam Clancy, USC (19.3 ppg, 10 reb, 50.8% fg) C - David West, Xavier (18.5 ppg, 10.4 reb, 2.8 blk, 56% fg) THIRD TEAM PG - Kirk Hinrich, Kansas (15.1 ppg, 5.6 ast, 55% fg, 46% 3-pt) SG - Dwayne Wade, Marquette (18.2 ppg, 6.8 reb, 2.6 stl) SF - Luke Walton, Arizona (15.7 ppg, 7.6 reb, 6.2 ast) PF - Mike Sweetney, Georgetown (19.7 ppg, 9.8 reb, 57% fg, 80% ft) C - Melvin Ely, Fresno St (23.2 ppg, 9.7 reb, 3.5 blk)
hmm, well my All-America is basically the same as everyone else's...So I'll give some All Big 12 picks. 1st team: Hollis Price(OU) Kirk Hinrich(KU) Kareem Rush (MU) Andre Emmitt(TTU) Drew Gooden(KU) 2nd team: Aaron McGhee(OU) Maurice Baker(OSU) T.J. Ford (UT) David Harrison (CU) Nick Collison (KU) 3rd Team: Ebi Ere (OU) James Thomas (UT) Clarence Gilbert (MU) Kasib Powell (TTU) ??? need some help on that last spot...
yeah, Ellis is good. other guys that I'm impressed with: Brandon Mouton (UT) Jason Detrick (OU) Jabahri Brown (OU) Victor Williams (OSU) Larry Reid (K-state) Bernard King (A&M) Tyray pearson( ISU) John Lucas (Baylor) sorry to bore you with this, but I love the Big 12!
