in light of this topic: http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75466 i ask you...who would you vote for rookie of the year?
im sorry i just dont see how it cant be Lebron. everyone was suprised at how Amare played last season out of highschool. and now Lebron has played better then even him in his first year. comon now no debate just give it to him. then you take Carmelo and he will have a great great career. no disrespect to him in the least.
Melo is only one year younger than Lebron. And he already carrys his team into the playoffs in the toughest division in the league. Remember now, Nuggets is the most improved team this season.
you mean older. and their improvement isn't all due to carmelo. the nuggets picked a whole bunch of new players last summer. Miller, Lenard, Boykins, Barry, in effect Camby (only played a few games the year before). So pretty much their whole rotation is new.
well there actually not even a year apart. but playing one year of college is a slight advantage, plus with going all the way through the tournament. i guess as much as carmelo has impressed me this year. lebron has done so a little more.
why isn't corookie a option? i think i want to see wich team makes the play offs. but i think i wil have to choose James
If Carmelo doesn't win it straight up or at least get co-ROY, then it will be robbery Yao Ming style.
LeBron is the better player, he should win it. No shame in that. LeBron has had all teh hype and not only lived up to it, but exceeded it. I love Melo, but the only way he could get co-rookie is if he just flat out dominates and carries us into the playoffs, while James falls apart at the end.
Holding out hope for Skita, but preparing for the worst. The only reason I haven't given up on him personally is he has such a great attitude. Dude is putting in more time than anyone else on the team to improve, and it's just not happening as smoothly as we all hoped. Honestly, I think he'll get better, the question is how much. At worst, next year we should have a backup 3/4 that can provide 15 minutes a night of not screwing up. Hope we get more, but not expecting it.
Why can't they just give it to both of them? Both of their situations are pretty impressive. If you put the Cavs in the West and Nuggets in the East, it'd be different.
Tozai, I'd love to see it, but LeBron has been the better player. And I don't buy the "Denver has more talent" crap. Cleveland has an all-star center. Boozer is better than Nene (yes, I said that, yes I stand by it, watch him and look at the stats). Eric Williams isn't a slouch either. Denver might have more talent overall, but it's pretty damn close. I just don't think you can go against LeBron when you consider all the hype he's faced and the fact that he has outdone expectations. That's pretty damn hardcore. I mean, Melo has clearly outdone what was expected of him, but he didn't have the media spotlight Bron did. Then again, knowing how they screwed up last year, it wouldn't surprise me to see Kurt Hinrich get the damn award.
That's right. Sorry, my hatred for Kansas blocks out certain names. No really, Raef LaFrentz at #3 overall is a good pick.
Except for the part about actually using him next year, he sounds a lot like a guy named Bostjan Nachbar. But seriously, wasnt Tskitishvilli (sp?) a bench player and Nachbar a starter when they played for Benetton Treviso? Is it just that Nickoloz was younger and had more potential? Why'd his stock shoot up so much right before that draft?
