Post by cop5414 on Sept 18, 2024 8:03:45 GMT
NBN's 2020's All-Decade 2nd Team
PG: De'Aaron Fox
Stats:
Games: 557
MPG: 38.3
PPG: 30.4
APG: 8.4
RPG: 5.3
SPG: 2.2
BPG: 0.2
TOPG: 2.7
FG%: .477
FT%: .843
3P%: .418
Awards:
2023 - All-Star Game Participant
2025 - All-Star Game Participant
2025 - All-Star Game MVP
2026 - All-Star Game Participant
2026 - All-Star Game MVP
2026 - Most Valuable Player
2026 - All-League First Team
2026 - All-Defensive Second Team
2027 - 3-Point Shootout Champion
2027 - All-Star Game Participant
2028 - All-Star Game Participant
2028 - All-Star Game MVP
2028 - Most Valuable Player
2028 - All-League First Team
2029 - All-Star Game Participant
2029 - All-Star Game MVP
2029 - All-League 2nd Team
Achievements:
Championships: 1
Player of the Game: 256
Player of the Week: 19
Player of the Month: 5
Double Doubles: 198
Triple Doubles: 10
Some might reject my decision to place him after Maxey, but once again it comes down to personal tastes. For point guards I prefer high assists with low number of turnovers. The supporting cast likely affected his numbers on that sense. Then there is the head-to-head NBN finals to consider. I'm certain he ended up injured during the middle of one of them, so that might put a blemish on the general arguement, but in a sense health is also an important factor and despite being an workhorse during the regular season, never missing more than 6 games in a season, Fox has had the tendency to come up with injury when the post season hits. This is called the art of nitpicking. In order to justify his placement below Maxey I'll need to pick at anything. Like the ugly career 2.7 TOPG. Just ignore those shooting percentages, or the fact that he's average 30.4ppg in his career and is the current career point leader in the league with 14,564 points.
SG Austin Reeves
Stats:
Games: 538
MPG: 37.8
PPG: 24.7
APG: 4.4
RPG: 6.4
SPG: 1.7
BPG: 0.1
TOPG: 2.1
FG%: .449
FT%: .802
3P%: .398
Awards:
2023 - All-League First Team
2024 - All-Star Game Participant
2024 - All-League Second Team
2025 - All-Star Game Participant
2025 - All-League First Team
2028 - All-Star Game Participant
Achievements:
Championships: 0
Player of the Game: 73
Player of the Week: 0
Player of the Month: 0
Double Doubles: 63
Triple Doubles: 4
We josh about dash and the Wizards annual post season implode, there existed a team in the West in the land of no lakes called the Los Angeles Lakers. Who consistently failed to come through in the post season, and they were led by two players Austin Reaves and Ja Morant. Side note: kind of crazy Ja Morant never won an All-League award, guess he waved a gun around or something? Reaves, who was given a serious glow-up by the player creator (I'm assuming rog?), don't know what they were smoking but clearly they'd taken a swig of that Laker Kool-aid that the bozos at ESPN like to serve. Enough about that though, what impresses me here is the low tunrovers plus high assists, any non-PG that produce +4apg vets me fired up and this guy has consistently lived above that 4.5 threshold. Something bigger turnover guys like Devin Booker and Anthony Edwards failed to do. Great career, great player, and he'll likely have another 2/3 seasons of decent production.
SF Scottie Barnes
Stats:
Games: 569
MPG: 38.1
PPG: 21.1
APG: 3.7
RPG: 8.4
SPG: 1.7
BPG: 0.5
TOPG: 2.0
FG%: .444
FT%: .798
3P%: .405
Awards:
2023 - All-Defensive Second Team
2024 - All-Star Game Participant
2024 - All-League Second Team
2024 - All-Defensive Second Team
2025 - All-Star Game Participant
2025 - All-League First Team
2025 - All-Defensive Second Team
2026 - All-Star Game Participant
2026 - All-League Second Team
2026 - All-Defensive Second Team
2027 - All-Star Game Participant
2027 - All-League Second Team
2027 - All-Defensive Second Team
2028 - All-Defensive Second Team
2029 - All-Star Game Participant
2029 - All-League First Team
Achievements:
Championships: 1
Player of the Game: 81
Player of the Week: 0
Player of the Month: 0
Double Doubles: 192
Triple Doubles: 4
Subjectively, if I had to choose between either having Jayson Tatum or Scottie Barnes on my team for their career, I'm taking Barnes no question. That statement has no reflection on personal opinion of the real Tatum, but rather declaring what gets my blood pumping for this postion in this league. Now until he got to carlos, he's never been a lights out shooter like Tatum but he's rebounding is off the charts, somehow performs better than some starting PF gor other teams. Low turnovers, with a decent amount of stocks, which at the SF poaition anything between 2.0-2.5 is All-Defensive worthy. Making the 2nd team is deservedly his no debate, as he's the only other SF in this decade to claim more than 2 All-League awards. If this league were to bring back HOF voting I'm not sure if he'd ve favored by most, or simply looked at as the hall of very good, but I' suspect he'd be at least spoken well of by some GMs.
PF Cooper Flagg
Stats:
Games: 398
MPG: 35.3
PPG: 21.3
APG: 4.6
RPG: 11.8
SPG: 1.4
BPG: 1.9
TOPG: 2.0
FG%: .441
FT%: .756
3P%: .425
Awards:
2025 - All-Star Rookie Game Participant
2025 - All-Rookie Team
2026 - All-Star Rookie Game Participant
2026 - Rookie Game MVP
2026 - All-Star Game Participant
2026 - All-League First Team
2026 - All-Defensive Second Team
2027 - All-Star Game Participant
2027 - All-League First Team
2027 - All-Defensive Team
2028 - All-Star Game Participant
2028 - All-League First Team
2028 - All-Defensive Team
2029 - All-Star Game Participant
2029 - All-League First Team
2029 - All-Defensive Team
Achievements:
Championships: 0
Player of the Game: 116
Player of the Week: 4
Player of the Month: 1
Double Doubles: 268
Triple Doubles: 12
Possibly baffling statements as he makes the All-Decade 2nd Team but there hasn't been an PF in this league that has achieved the hardware that Cooper Flagg has. Maybe this spot is more or less pettiness from myself since in the 2029 FA he opted to stay in that disgusting swamp in D.C rather than go to a more rustic craphole called Detroit. Since his sophmore season he's been named to All-League and All-Defensive teams each season, his only blemish in this decade is playing about 150 games less than almost everyone else who was eligible on this list. He's only 24 though, and I'd wager in this star lackluster position he'll dominate the postion for the majority of the 2030's. If he could only find his way to a championship and maybe an MVP season he'll be considered on of the greats in this 3.0 version when its all set and done.
C Joel Embiid
Stats:
Games: 535
MPG: 36.5
PPG: 24.5
APG: 3.9
RPG: 13.7
SPG: 1.3
BPG: 3.0
TOPG: 3.1
FG%: .464
FT%: .794
3P%: .399
Awards:
2023 - All-Star Game Participant
2023 - All-Star Game MVP
2023 - All-League Second Team
2024 - All-Star Game Participant
2024 - All-League First Team
2024 - Defensive Player of the Year
2024 - All-Defensive Team
2024 - Playoff MVP
2026 - All-Star Game Participant
2026 - All-League Second Team
2026 - Defensive Player of the Year
2026 - All-Defensive Team
2027 - All-League Third Team
2029 - All-League Second Team
2029 - All-Defensive Second Team
Achievements:
Championships: 3
Player of the Game: 152
Player of the Week: 9
Player of the Month: 1
Double Doubles: 438
Triple Doubles: 6
The other major contributor of the Philadelphia 76ers complete dominance of the Eastern Conference. One could argue that his decade was superior to Wembanyama who I put as the First team member. He had similar shooting percentages, rebounds, same amount of stocks, but an larger contributor to diahing out the ball. He never managed an MVP player like Wemby, and who knows maybe one was rightfully taken away from his own teamate in Tyrese Maxey. Which might be why I'm punishing him here. He's got the championships that Wemby has yet to reach, but he was never the leading act, regardless the man is still shoving. I thought he mmight of been on his way towards retiremnt going to next season, but he decided to stick around for another season with the up-and-coming Brooklyn Nets. Even if he takes that TC hit job at the old age of 36 I'd still expect something like 18ppg/12rpg/3.5stpg this season. Embiid has been an absolute legend in this league.
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