Official: Kyle Lowry does not make the All-Star Team

I don't think he has improved this year, he gets the ball more often, but overall I think his defense is worse as is his shooting.

He is getting noticed more, but he looks worse this year than last to me.

DD

 

Kyle Lowry is Mookie Blaylock...

They have an almost identical statistical trajectory.

Mookie retired averaging 14-7-4 with 2 steals a game for his career. He made one allstar game and had HUGE games in the playoffs.

 

His shooting is nearly identical.

41% from the field and 37% from three. Plus, his freethrow percentage jumped up nearly 10% from this year to last... His rebounding and steal rates have also increased pretty significantly.

All that said, I can see where you are coming from, but only for the last few weeks.

He was a freaking monster for much of the beginning of the season...

 

Is this somehow an insult to Nash? If so, I don't follow.

Replace his current best 3 teammates with 2005 versions of Stoudemire, Marion, and Joe Johnson, and what do you get? That team is probably the top seed in the west this year, in my opinion.

Nash's game has always been based on his skills, and those have not regressed.

 

On the offensive side of the ball, for 30 minutes a game, he is excellent, on a losing team...


You put Amare/Marion/Joe on any team and you are looking at the best team in the West... :grin:

 

Marcin Gortat having 15.2 ppg and 10.2 rbs......still they are under 0.500

 

This is a travesty.

 

His statistical rates look to be slowly "regressing" to his averages from last year, so I'm also not sure if he's really improved. I don't think he's any worse, though.

 

...and they wouldn't make it to finals AGAIN, even with all those all stars.

My comment was somewhat of a joke (although I do think he should be an all star). It's just funny how he's gone from 2 time MVP to most non coaches thinking he has no business in the all star game. He's play just as good, if not better than when he was MVP. The suns are a bad team because they play a crappy style of offense inherited from Dantoni which relies too heavily on the PG and have zero defensive accountability.

If the Suns played a different way, Nash would have more than one championship. Unfortunately, he'd probably have far less gaudy stats and probably would have never won MVP with much less of a glamorous legacy. I'm not quite sure which one Nash would prefer.

 

You are reverse jinxing them. Suns are playing well tonight.

 

Enough said
Only three players.... and one got snubbed.

 

Funny how the Suns prior to Nash arriving there had those 3 guys.

 

This is for the best. Not going to lie I did not want him their and do not care because that whole thing is worthless. Only good thing Lowry gets more rest because he will need it

 

But that's irrelevant. The point I was making is that he's producing just as well as he did 6 years ago. The difference is a crappy collection of players around him at the moment.

 

I will admit that Nash is still better than Lowry. He is a HoFer guys and he's still playing at that level at age 37, somehow.

He has a .571 FG%, mind-boggling .657 TS%, and is averaging 15 and 10 in 31 minutes a game. His PER is 24. He's having the most efficient offensive season of his entire career. Pretty incredible!

 

Allstar game is worthless and making means almost nothing

 

Maybe . . . Lowry, but Martin cmon.

Was Martin even the best shooting guard that got snubbed?