The NBA All-Star: Sabonis Domanta was stolen; Lamelo Ball, brings Young clearly docked by losing

With 2025 NBA The headlines of the All-Star already announced last week, the seven reservations for each conference were revealed on Thursday night. Reminder, this year’s All-Star game is not a traditional format. There are four teams of eight (24 All-Stars are divided uniformly and the winning team of the Rising Stars game) that basically play a tournament in square brackets. As such, this is the group of 24 players (headlines and reservations) from which those eight teams of players will be extracted. The headlines were determined by a combination of votes of fans, media and players, while the coaches selected the reservations.

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Congratulations to all these players. All are fantastic, obviously. But, naturally, this is where we talk about who was unarmed. There were three types at each conference that did not form the team that had first -level cases, but one stands out as the greatest omission. That’s where we will start.

West Conference

This is the theft of absolute roads. Shame about the coaches for not rewarding Sabonis, who leads the league with 42 double doubles while registering near the top of almost all advanced metrics. He is averaging 21 points per game with a shot of 61% and leads the league in just under 15 rebounds per night.

How rare is that particular combination of statistical brands? The only other player to achieve them in a single season is Wilt Chamberlain. That’s right, a player who is having a season just matched by Wilt Freaking Chamberlain is not an All-Star. Well.

I have the need to reward a rock player with the selection selection, but that is a sum of his games in Houston, and if he really felt so firmly about a Houston representative, he could have easily justified Jalen Green Green about James Harden.

Leaving Sabonis outside is ridiculous. Sengun is shooting 49% from the field; Sabonis is shooting 45% of 3! Obviously, a training change was needed to launch the Kings, but more than 13 games in January are 10-3 and Sabonis averages 21.7 points, 16.8 rebounds, 7.8 assists in the absurd shooting divisions of 64/60. That 60% clip of 3 points does not have an insignificant volume either. It has 20 by 33 from the deep of this period. The coaches were wrong.

I am not so worked for Irving’s Desaira as I am Sabonis’, but I would have it in Harden. Yes, Harden has played in a handful more games, but the guy is shooting less than 40% from the field. As you will see below, you shouldn’t even be in your own clippers teammate. Irving, meanwhile, is flirting with another 50-40-90 season while averaging better of 24 points per night. Harden is a nod to win, but come on, the clippers have a victory more than the Mavericks. Kyrie has been better than Harden for a quite broad margin.

Compared to Harden per 100, clippers increase significantly more with Powell on the floor and fall significantly lower with him. In total, Powell Balance the Fortune of the Clippers for more than 10 points per 100 possessions, while hardening the balance less than five, for cleaning the glass.

Don’t you want to listen to nerd in-off divisions? Good. Powell is averaging 24 points per game at Harden 21, and most importantly, Powell is shooting almost 44% of 3 in just under eight attempts per game. The clippers have possibly been the most surprising team due to the defense, and Harden is not part of that. With Kawhi Leonard, Powell has undoubtedly been the largest offensive weapon. It should be instead of hardening.

Eastern Conference

Young was not selected by coaches and is not surprising. Herro would have been the guy who was replaced by young people and the two players listed below, but Herro has been more efficient than all of them, and the Heat, although it is certainly not a good team, they are better than Atlanta, Charlotte or Philadelphia.

Ultimately, coaches value profit, and Young’s game simply has not been translated. It has not translated for a while to be honest. A lot of hawks are having very good seasons and yet there are three games under .500 at stake on Thursday.

Yes, Young leads the league in assists, but its shooting is very decreased by 40% in general and only 34% of 3. At this time, Young has been clearly labeled by coaches as at least one type of spices somewhat empty . You will have to balance that perception leading your team in another place other than the game.

Speaking of empty statistics, Ball, who was the main voter getter of the guard among fans, is taken out of a place like the fourth scorer of the league with more than 28 points per game. You will not see that often. Ball is clearly seen as an act of Carnival that a winning player by the coaches. It has a massive use and a free reign to do what you want without bets for a terrible team, and its efficiency is nothing to write. But still, their statistics are quite crazy not to be in an All-Star team.

Maxey is the seventh leader of the League with more than 27 points per game, but its efficiency has fallen and the Sixers have been, with much, the most disappointing team of the League. That is not Maxey’s fault, but he did not have a realistic opportunity to get the approval of Herro, which has been much more efficient, when his team is sitting out of the game. Sixers are simply too stained at this time to be rewarded with an All-Star, but Maxey is having a season of stars.