Even playing in a non-garbage but slower-paced offense may have been enough. But Tony has decided to play a slow paced AND garbage offense so it will be tough to have his players win individual accolades and it will also be tough to attract the players who are likely to win individual accolades. I’d prefer that change but I suspect some of you would just rather I be less negative and we can just assume the voters are dumb or biased or whatever.
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Erick Green as the 2012 ACC POY over Mike Scott was all you ever needed to know that they only truly care about scoring in handing out awards.
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Reminds me that KenPom really beat the drum for appreciating Mike Scott before tempo-free stats were more widely used and known:
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Tyler Zeller, that is. And yes, that was laughable.
Oh, right, Green won in it 2013 (again, purely about scoring, since Tech didn’t even win a lot of games that year).
I get that it’s the PAC-12’s last year but 10 dudes is ridiculous:
https://x.com/JonRothstein/status/1767582555362972072?s=20
PAC 12 10, SEC 8, Big 10 6. Poor Reece if we were just in a conference that couldn’t count, he’d have been 1st team.
Seriously, when did it become more than 5 on a team?
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This doesn’t apply to the Pac-12, which still has… 12 teams? Is that right? I don’t even know. (And now I’ll never need to learn.) But in general, I think that as conferences expand, so should the all-conference teams. Being top 5 in an 8-team conference is very different from being top 5 in a 20-team conference.
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Welcome to the Pac-12, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the basketball players are first teamers.
- Garrison Keillor
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If the PAC12 keeps its 10 player “First Team” when it becomes the PAC2 next year this could literally be true.
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Third team is gonna have to include student managers
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There you go.
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And a tie, 6 man team! @JBHoo called it!
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Pac-12 has had a 10 player 1st team for like 2 decades.