BJD95 2013-14 All-ACC Hoops Selections

Good morning, all. I almost decided to be lazy and not post these this year, but we need to pass the time until Buckets rightly gets honored.

Player of the Year: TJ “Buckets” Warren, NC State

Until the last two weeks, this was an item for lively debate, with logical cases to be made all around. After the last week of play especially, you have to be a complete fool or a Dave Glenn/Barry Jacobs/Jay Bilas caliber Blue fluffer to vote for anyone else. You don’t see true greatness come around every day, and you should really stop to appreciate what Buckets is doing. He’s the best offensive player in the league by a longshot, a top 10 rebounder, and easily deserves first team all-defense honors. The only thing you can possibly hold against him is not having a twin, which would have made NC State a national title contender.

Coach of the Year: Tony Bennett, Virginia

The Cavaliers clinched sole possession of the regular season “title” more than a week before the season ended, unleashing a blitzkrieg of epic proportions on poor Syracuse. Only questionable calls down the stretch kept them from winning in Cameron, and their only other setback was a road OT loss against a fired-up Maryland squad closing out its ACC regular season history. UVA did this WITHOUT a real first-team contending player (more below), and despite their best player (Joe Harris) suffering a substantial decline on production. That spells COY, in any language.

Rookie of the Year: Jabari Parker, Duke

Duh. Not much more to add here. Also my prediction for ACCT MVP honors (see tomorrow’s ramblings).

First Team All-ACC:

TJ “Buckets” Warren, NC State
Marcus Paige, *NC
Jabari Parker, Duke
KJ McDaniels, Clemson
Lamar Patterson, Pitt

You will notice how many voters reach to put a Cavalier on this list, because a 16-2 conference champ “should” be represented. But that team is greater than the sum of its parts, and I don’t see how you bump ANY of these five with a straight face. McDaniels is widely regarded as the favorite for DPOY, and is 5th in scoring (conference games only). Defense counts in all-ACC voting, too – or at least it should.

Second Team All-ACC:

Olivier Hanlan, Boston College
Tyler Ennis, Syracuse
CJ Fair, Syracuse
Rodney Hood, Duke
Malcolm Brogdon, Virginia

Hanlan is going to be short-changed on a lot of ballots…but not mine. Great player on a putrid team. Next are the Syracuse twins (in terms of production, and inconsistency which kept them off the first team), Duke’s second killer option and finally, your first Cavalier. Yeah, I got all the way to 10 before I even seriously considered one. I spit coffee every time I read a ballot with McAdoo on the second team. He f-cking sucks.

Third Team All-ACC:

Dez Wells, Maryland
Daniel Miller, Georgia Tech
Aaron Thomas, Florida State
Okaro White, Florida State
Joe Harris, Virginia

Here’s where it gets difficult. There’s a HUGE dropoff in quality after #10, and you can make an argument for an endless number of players for the third team. But I’m going with these schmucks, and I believe my picks are quasi-defensible.

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  • #45185
    Rick
    Keymaster

    K did it guaranteed

    They should just change the name from POY to the “best player on the best team award”.

    #45187
    bill.onthebeach
    Participant

    Mr. Dog…

    who was the #6th kid’s coach on that list…??

    #NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
    #45188
    compsciwolf
    Participant

    It’s entirely possible that he’ll get snubbed again when the seasonal award is announced on Tuesday

    POY gets announced tomorrow, per this article:

    http://acc.blogs.starnewsonline.com/40848/in-acc-player-of-the-year-debate-t-j-warren-lets-his-performance-do-the-talking/

    #45189
    compsciwolf
    Participant

    Warren gets player of the week, in the very last week.

    http://www.theacc.com/#!/news-detail/ACCMBB-Players-of-the-Week-Announced_03-10-14_m6fvxk

    Parker is rookie of the week.

    #45190
    Wufpacker
    Participant

    Mr. Dog…

    who was the #6th kid’s coach on that list…??

    bill…

    Tyler Ennis (33pts) was first on the coach’s 2nd team. I think that’s what you were asking.

    EDIT – never mind…I see where you’re drifting now re: Boeheim.

    #45191
    redcanine
    Participant

    Whoever left TJ off first team is out of his f’ing mind. Who hates Gott the most? F’em.

    #45193
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    Good god.

    Warren had 4pts v. UVa.

    I’m tellin’ it was Bennet.

    But, who the hell knows?

    #45195
    redcanine
    Participant

    Good god.

    Warren had 4pts v. UVa.

    I’m tellin’ it was Bennet.

    But, who the hell knows?

    I didn’t hear/read ya the first time. My bad.

    #45196
    bill.onthebeach
    Participant

    ^overlooking CUZ is definitely NOT the Basketsaurus Norte’s style…

    I vote for Uncle Roy…

    ….besides there are a dozen out of the 77 who wouldn’t vote for Parker or Ennis or anybody else for POY… just because the kid is a freshman…

    and that skews the voting much more than anything “personal”…

    #NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
    #45200
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    Ol’ Roy is a shit, but he gushed about Buckets after our game. Would be shocked if it was him.

    I could totally see Boeheim only voting for former Big East members.

    #45202
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    I put nothing past the Greensboro cabal. TJ could get Evtimov’d. I still to this day do not know how those bastages at the ACC could let that stand. Really, a misspelling costs Evtimov a position on the ALL ACC team?

    So what’s to keep them from doing the same, or something equally ridiculous, this year? If you got idiot voters who don’t take the time to know the rules or learn the correct spelling of players names’, anything can happen.

    Each of the below could be counted as a different player, thus a vote cast for one does not count for any other.

    TJ Warren
    T.J. Warren
    Tony Warren
    Tony Warren, Jr
    Tony “T. J.” Warren, Jr.
    Anthony Warren

    and who knows, you could have some fool vote for

    TJ Warren, Jr
    Anthony Warren

    Heck, one of those morons could write “Worren” or “Warrin”, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a “TJ Warrant” from that crowd.

    #45203
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    I could totally see Boeheim only voting for former Big East members.

    So could I.

    #45204
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    @ Canis Rufus..( Yeah renamed nickname, but correct for you.)

    I did yell it the second time, huh?

    🙂 Pretty work. Sneaky funny, as usual.

    …It does make one wonder though, what coach, out of 14, would leave Warren off the 1st ballot.

    #45207
    wufpup76
    Keymaster

    Ol’ Roy is a sh*t, but he gushed about Buckets after our game. Would be shocked if it was him.

    I could totally see Boeheim only voting for former Big East members.

    ^My money would be on the sanctimonious Boeheim as well.

    #45218
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    Evtimoooov was left off an experimental electronic ballot for All-Frosh, because of multiple misspellings.
    Circa 2002.

    Someone had it in for NCSU.
    Maybe someone even had it in for “fernors”

    #45219
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    I’m still not sure how Parker warrants Rookie of the Week since Dook lost to WF. These are team awards, right?

    #45220
    13OT
    Participant

    Except for Fair instead of McDaniels on 1st team, I agree with the picks here.

    #45227
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    I’m still not sure how Parker warrants Rookie of the Week since Dook lost to WF. These are team awards, right?

    Mr. Ply, you win the internet. I would like you to ask Jay Bilas this question live and in person, then put it on the YouTubez.

    #45233
    wufpup76
    Keymaster

    ^Agree –> +1,000,000 for Ply

    #45248
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    Thanks for the clarification CD. How somebody doesn’t step in and correct that though… if for no other reason than the integrity of the voting and the award itself, I still don’t understand.

    #45251
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    BTW, Buckets DID get screwed on all-defense. Didn’t even get freaking honorable mention, by media OR coaches. A damn shame, that is.

    #45252
    RowdyNCSU
    Participant

    Hate to admit it but I caught some of Ole Roy’s radio show last night….he all but said that Warren should be POY….we’ll see if others share his mindset

    #45253
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    One thing I have to give ole Roy credit for is his passion for the rivalry and respect for the players in it. Maybe that’s two things.

    #45255
    maverick_ncsu
    Participant

    I was listening to Adam and Joe yesterday on my way home and agree that it would be nice if each person was required to always make their votes public, for both the weekly and season honors. I would love to know who gave some first place votes to some of those lower guys. My guess is it’s simply to get those guys more points more than it is they think that a McAdoo is really a first-teamer.

    #45256
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    My guess is it’s simply to get those guys more points more than it is they think that a McAdoo is really a first-teamer.

    I’d venture that there’s also a component of NOT voting for a specific, more deserving player.

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