Shoryuken said:
Now I see that you're just incredibly bitter hater. You're so wrong that it isn't even funny.
Boo hoo hoo....because I making a (at least somewhat
) logical argument, i'm not an incredibly bitter hater? Whatever.
First of all he's been a consistent 19 to 20 point scorer most of his six seasons (counting this one) in the league (over 19 ppg that past 4 seasons and a career average of 18.1 ppg). 5 of which he didn't have Steve Nash.
Yeah, and his FG% is up .044 over last year and RPG up 1.5. If he was averaging 19/9/44% (like he did last year without an MVP PG) he wouldn't look nearly as good.
Second, All-Star selections aren't based on how important you are to your team, but how good of a player you are. And when you compare the statistics of Marion versus Webber and Lewis, he is just the better player (at this time).
That's total crap. If it was just battle of statistics (as opposed to how important you are to your team's success), then Carlos Boozer (19, 9, 53%), Pau Gasol (20, 9, 52%), Elton Brand, Zach Randolph etc. would also get consideration. All-Star positions always go to players who are responsible for their team's success, not to the guys with simply the best stats.
See, 20-10 sounds impressive, until you realize that almost every team in the west has starting forward that averages that, and they are more important to their teams than Marion is to the Suns. I'll take the guy who has
slightly worse stats but who actually bears the responsibility of being the number 1 or 2 option on his team over the third whell on a team that already has 2 MVP candidates.
Lastly to address the bolded point, over the past few seasons even when he was the first and second option on his team he still mananged to average over 19 ppg and shoot a good to decent FG% (over 44%). So there goes that theory of him not being able to create his own shots (which is proposterous in the first place) or only playing well when he is a third wheel.
Well, last year was the first year in a while that he wasn't the third wheel (he was the second) on a team with an all-star PG and he posted a career low FG% (one that is pretty bad for a forward averaging less than 20 points - 44%) and subpar numbers throughout. Name me another all-star in the strongest position in the league (west forward) who was the second option on a 30 win team just last year.
