Some people get the honor by surprise, and of course, some people are left behind.The following will be a list of 6 players who deserved to be selected, but unfortunately were not selected in the end.
The complete list of the 2024 NBA All-Star Game was released last week. Due to the limited number of places, the official list of participants is announced every year, and there are always some happy and some sad.
This year’s draft includes Magic Paolo Banchero, 76ers Tyrese Maxey and Nick Jalen Brunson, all of whom were selected for the first time in their careers. In addition, the starting backcourt of the All-Star Game is also undergoing a major reshuffle. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tyrese Haliburton and Damian Lillard are all participating in the event as starters for the first time.
Some people get the honor by surprise, and of course, some people are left behind. The Kings, De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis, were both undrafted, making them the only team in the top six in the Western Conference without an All-Star.Head coach Mike Brown publicly expressed his grievances for his players.. The Thunder and Nuggets, currently ranked among the top four in the Western Conference, each have only one player selected. Compared to the Lakers, who are on the edge of the play-off list but located in a big city, two players were selected, which also caused heated discussions.
The following will be a list of 6 players who were worthy of selection but unfortunately were not selected in the end:
Trae Young
Average: 27.3Score 10.9Assists 1.5Transcript 3.4Three minutes hit
AlthoughThe NBA officially announced earlier that Trae Young and Scottie Barnes were selected for the All-Star Game to replace Joel Embiid (left knee meniscus surgery) and Julius Randle (shoulder dislocation) who were absent due to injuries.but Young was not qualified through voting, so this article still includes him in the discussion.
Judging from the data, there is no doubt about Young’s performance. His average assists, interceptions, three-point field goals and three-point field goal percentage per game are all career highs. If we can maintain the current pace,Will have the opportunity to become the third player in NBA history to average “25 points and 10 assists” in a single season, joining Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook.. also,According to PBP data statisticsno one in the NBA has created more points through assists than him this season.
In the past, as long as he averaged “27 points and 10 assists” per game, it was almost equivalent to getting a ticket to the All-Star Game., such as Robertson (five times in his career), Tiny Archibald (1972-73), James Harden (2016-17) and Russell Westbrook (2016-17). Not only that, the above four players were all ranked in the top three teams of the year that season, and two of them won the annual MVP award. This goes to show how unusual it is for Young to lose the draft this season.
In fact, Young’s performance in recent years has been very stable.In the past two seasons, his total assists and “20 points and 10 assists in a single game” both led the league. He is also the only player to accumulate 3,000 points and 1,000 assists during this period.. However, the Hawks’ record for two consecutive seasons was not as good as expected, which somewhat caused the outside world to have a discount on his impression score. In particular, the team introduced Dejounte Murray to assist him in the summer of 2022, but it has been unable to achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two, which is disappointing. He was even more disappointed, which led to his failure in the voting for two consecutive years.
De’Aaron Fox
Average: 27.3Score 4.0Rebounds 5.3Assists 1.8Copy 3.0Three minutes hit
Similar to Young, De’Aaron Fox is also a star that is easily ignored by the outside world. He also failed in the voting in last year’s All-Star Game. Zion Williamson was selected as a replacement because of an injury to his right hamstring. Fox’s performance this season can be called a career year, but he still missed the event.
The most outstanding thing about Fox’s performance this season is that his outside jump shot, which has been criticized in the past, has reached 37.8% of the shooter level. This is achieved while taking nearly 8 three-pointers per game. It is not easy. He averages 3 hits per game. A three-pointer can rank among the top 20 in the league. As a control group, Eastern Conference starting guard Lillard averaged the same three-pointers as him, but his three-point shooting percentage was only 34.7%.
The upgrade of outside control has brought Fox’s firepower to a higher level.This season he has appeared in 5 games with more than 40 points, second only to Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Dončić and Embiid. Fox ranks among the top ten in the league in points per game this season, and he is the only player not selected for the All-Star Game.Of course, just being able to score points is not enough to guarantee admission to the All-Star Game. After all,Among the 237 players in NBA history who reached the standard of “averaging 27 points per game and playing 40 games”, 7 players were lost in the season.。
However, Fox also has a good record. His Kings are currently on the safe list for the playoffs, and his contribution is no less than that of Domantas Sabonis. Comparing the performance of the two leading the team alone,According to Cleaning the Glass statistics, when the Kings only have Fox and no Sabonis on the court, the team’s plus-minus is positive, and vice versa is -6.Fox’s importance to the Kings is self-evident.
Domantas Sabonis
Average: 19.7Points 13.1Rebounds 8.2Assists, shooting percentage 61.9%
Compared with teammate Fox, Sabonis, who ranks among the best in all statistics, was not selected for this All-Star Game, which is even more surprising. Sabonis currently leads the league in rebounds, ranks sixth in assists, has the most double-10 games in the NBA, and is tied for first with Nikola Jokić in triple-digit games.His true shooting percentage (TS%) is 65.9%, ranking first among all players averaging more than 19 points per game.. also,He is also the first player in the history of the league to reach the standard of “averaging 19 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists per game, and shooting 60% from the field.”。
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