Rookie-Sophmore challenge rosters announced

http://www.nba.com/20Rookie Team roster

Player (Team) Position Height/Weight School/Country

Omri Casspi (Kings) F 6-9/225 Israel
DeJuan Blair (Spurs) F-C 6-7/265 Pittsburgh
Stephen Curry (Warriors) G 6-3/185 Davidson
Tyreke Evans (Kings) G 6-6/220 Memphis
Jonny Flynn (Timberwolves) G 6-0/186 Syracuse
Taj Gibson (Bulls) F 6-9/225 USC
James Harden (Thunder) G 6-5/220 Arizona State
Brandon Jennings (Bucks) G 6-1/169 Lottomatica Virtus Roma (Italy)
Jonas Jerebko (Pistons) F 6-10/231 Sweden


Sophomore Team roster

Player (Team) Position Height/Weight School/Country

Michael Beasley (Heat) F 6-9/245 Kansas State
Marc Gasol (Grizzlies) C 7-1/265 Spain
Danilo Gallinari (Knicks) G-F 6-10/225 Italy
Eric Gordon (Clippers) G 6-3/222 Indiana
Brook Lopez (Nets) C 7-0/260 Stanford
Kevin Love (Timberwolves) F-C 6-10/260 UCLA
O.J. Mayo (Grizzlies) G 6-4/210 USC
Derrick Rose (Bulls) G 6-3/190 Memphis
Russell Westbrook (Thunder) G 6-3/187 UCLA

any surprises that got in? snubs? Who do you think will win?

sophomores are gunna kill them.

marcus thornton was very deserving of making this rookie team. hes tearing shit up even though he doesn't always get double digit minutes. hopefully he'll prove how worthy he was, now that the hornets have dumped some of the depth.

ty lawson is an even bigger snub off the rookie squad. lawson has been very solid off the bench for an nba contender, with 9.3 points, 3.7 assists, and .9 steals, all in just 22.3 minutes per game. he even shoots good percentages from the field.

i know the rookie team is already full of guards, but lawson and thornton both deserved to be there over jerebko.

i like the choices for the sophomore team.

Michael who? Michael Beasley.

I think the Rooks have a shot this year.

A team with no center (against Brook Lopez and Marc Gasol) and basicall a team full of guards can beat the sophmores..the same sophmores that knocked out last years class of sophmores?
nah.

this is gonna be a fun game

Jennings-Flynn
curry- Harden
Evans-Blair (this is his rightful position imo)

The Front court doesn't matter because those 5 (6 if you count Blair) will drop 90 by themselves..

Sophomores will rape the Rookies.

No Ty Lawson...

And that group of six is as good as

Rose, Beasly, Lopez, Gasol, Mayo and Westbrook?

Nah.

Sophmore best 6>rookie best 6
remaining sophmore>>>>>remaining rookies

Eric Gordon isnt that good, Rose is overrated, but Westbrook and Mayo will pwn, but thats still

the 6 rooks> the 2 soph.

Plus, the front court really doesn't matter considering this is an all star event, and the ball handlers will stop at nothing to drop 50. The big men will rarely see the ball.

not if the rookies have no big men.... the soph big men will get the ball all day....

and if ur guard theory proves to be true, then the rookies cant win, because with all their guards...they'r all gonna go for 50 and fuck it up

..and there will be no defense played..so at least 3 of them will drop 25.

Westbrook is gonna end up with a LOT of dimes.

I have a feeling Jennings is going to break out of his slump and tear things up....

No George Hill?

lol seriously, I am soooo stoked for this game.
Imma book a day off work to watch this game, lol.
And I am sooooo happy to see Blair make rookie team; gooo rookies gooo!

Size wins over speed.

I want to see how Blair does against guys like Lopez n Love.

KD35 wrote:

I want to see how Blair does against guys like Lopez n Love.

Yeah, me too eh.
That is going to be interesting to watch.
are you rooting for Sophs cause of Westbrook? or rookies cause of Blair?

I really don't know haha

Blair and Harden are two of my favorite rookies while Westbrook is one of my favorite players.....


Majority rules, and I'm always pullin for the underdog so I guess I'm be rootin for the rooks.

No Rudy and Oden

Sophmores win

Don't forget Gallo is 6"10 himself. Lopez/Gasol/Gallo = tough covers...Anyways, those are some rightful names on both squads and I don't think that any of them do not deserve to be there. But, Luc Mbah a Moute is a good player and is deserving of being on the Soph. team. He wasn't named, so I'm not gonna fret neither should he and he should just play on and move along with his career.

Also Jordan Hill has come along strong these last couple of games and he's never really gotten that many playing opportunities to play until now. I like Jonas Jerebko, he is a good player. But, these last couple of months now he's stumbled quite a bit from where he was to begin the season. Jonas has made some rookie mistakes and Hill hasn't gotten the opportunity to fully display his capabilities until now. And seeing him now I would think he was deserving to make the game as a rookie. But, he did not make it so he should do what Mbah a Moute should do as well.

Wow Sophomores def got this

I got the Sophs winning 129-107

Rose will be MVP

Taj Gibson and Derrick Rose in it, 2 Bulls playing on opposite teams

Terrence Williams should've been it too

DeRozan should have been in the line-up too, poor guy..he will go there for the dunk-in and will not play the rook-sopho game.

I think Rudy deserves to play....

Rudy is avg 8 PPG...so they got it right by not including him...