Allstar Game Final Roster/Snubs

Beal, Booker, PG13 should be there over Lowry, Mitchell and cp3. yes the jazz and thunder are playing great,

the new format SUCKS!!!!

I thought Beal and Kyrie would get in instead of Lowry and Tatum. I didn’t think Kyrie deserved it, so glad he missed out. I actually wouldn’t have picked Lowry though, there’s a few guys that were just as worthy for mine, namely Jaylen Brown and Beal.

In the West, I originally chose KAT and PG, and thought only one of CP, Westbrook or Ingram would get in. They all got in, so that’s fair enough. The others right there for mine were DeRozan, Morant and Booker. Will be a tough team to break into when PG, KAT, Curry, Zion and Klay are healthy.

The untimed 4th quarter sounds like an interesting development.

I like how they did it. No reserves from a god awful team. Lillard, ingram, are the only rederves with a losing team record.Should give Beal and Booker motivation to improve their teams! I’ve never seen a player avg 28ppg and get snubbed tho. Historical. Silver is a good commissioner

I think Booker and Beal should have definitely gotten in. I think Booker over Ingram easy, and I think that will be made more obvious come all star break with Zion getting back into the flow. The only problem I see is who gets their spot taken by Beal? The answer is realistically none of them. If i had to pick one, it would be Bam but if Bam was in that same situation, would Bam put up better numbers than Beal? Probably.

The coaches voted these guys in. Coaches value the best players on winning teams which is why this happened the way that it did. But Mitchell should absolutely be in, especially with the struggles of Conley and the Jazz still being as good as they should have been with him struggling. Chris Paul should be in too, the Thunder are winning, he is closing games, and keeping a team that would be the 14th seed in the West without him, alive. Like if the Thunder traded Paul to MIlwaukee and got Bledsoe back in a deal, easy 14th seed team. Lowry is a player like Gobert where a lot of their impact doesnt turn up in the stat sheet. KAT and PG have been too hurt or else it would make sense, and the same goes with Kyrie.

I’m surprised that Ingram made it over Devin Booker. I’m surprised the coaches voted any player whose team is below .500 to the All Star game. In the past it seemed they always rewarded players on winning teams to All Star reserve spots.

Butler have been listed as a guard and starting in the East. Young might have the flashier highlights and bigger stats, but his defense is awful and his team is terrible. Butler was clearly the more impactful and deserving starter, plus he plays a large percentage of his mins at the 2 anyway. I don’t really have a huge problem with young making the team, but not as a starter. I would have put both Simmons and Lowry over young as starters. The rest of the east team I am fine with. Beals numbers are deserving, but his team is awful and I couldn’t really say he deserves to be in over any of the guards that were picked.
In the west, the only pick I would take some exception to is Westbrook. I would have took Booker instead. Westbrook’s numbers are still extremely good and he would be difficult to leave off from a fan perspective, but his outside shooting and defense are huge liabilities. Booker is just having a more efficient and better season, even though he probably gets penalized for his team being out of the playoffs.

think you’re showing a bit of a bias there @OhCanada- being adamant Lowry should get in and that others don’t know how good he is. I don’t see any outrageous claims here. followed Lowry his whole career. I thought he was drafted too low, watched him bounce around in younger years in Memphis, Houston.. glad he finally ended up finding a home and becoming an all star. He’s had a fantastic career, all star and champion. The Raptors have been better than expected this year, no doubt. But, other players are playing as well or better. Van Vleet has even covered Lowry’s absences and played just as well as he has. It’s reasonable for someone to hold a different opinion on this. I actually think Lowry is a good chance to get traded, but it’ll be hard work finding a trade partner for that deal.

IN the East there a few guys who had a chance.
Beal, Drummond, Brogdon, Tobias Harris, Van Fleet

I’m more excited to see Gobert in the allstar game! Its needed some defense for years! I’m all for Rudy gobert getting dunked on and blocking shots. I think it’ll make the game a lot more exciting