Who has All-Star Potential?

Among our young guys, who has all-star potential?

  • Bogdanovic

    Votes: 12 16.9%
  • Cauley-Stein

    Votes: 14 19.7%
  • Fox

    Votes: 68 95.8%
  • Giles

    Votes: 40 56.3%
  • Hield

    Votes: 46 64.8%
  • Jackson

    Votes: 3 4.2%
  • Labissiere

    Votes: 55 77.5%
  • Mason

    Votes: 2 2.8%
  • Papagiannis

    Votes: 8 11.3%
  • Richardson

    Votes: 5 7.0%

  • Total voters
    71
#31
I think a more pertinent question is how many of the Kings young players make the NBA Rising Stars Challenge played during All Star weekend?

Fox, Heild, Bogdon, Skal, Jackson, Mason and George all have a chance if they get enough minutes. If Heild and Skal get a chance to start the first half of the season I expect they each will be there.
 
#32
Offensively he passes mine as well. The question with him will be his defense and the other areas of the game in particular his rebounding. Another interesting thing to watch will be whether or not his shot blocking eventually translates to the NBA level.

Skal is young and there is a lot of time for him to develop his offense. I think it would benefit him more right now to focus less on individual greatness and more on things like getting a spot 3 down. That will make the game easy for him and give him a leg up in whatever else he works on from then on.

Agreed, All of that will come with good coaching and time. I'm excited about the roster.
 
#33
Not sure I buy the bolded part.

Cousins is a 3 time all-star despite never making the play-offs. When the Kings where winning all of Webber, Peja, Vlade and Brad Miller were all-stars.
I said in an earlier post that we'd have to be a top 3 team with tons of bandwagon fans to have more than one or two all-stars because we're not going to see our guys voted in. I'll still stand by that. Even in our glory years we had extremely deserving players getting snubbed (Bibby).
 
#34
ASG selection is mostly a popularity contest, and in part also a team/city/market-based "achievement".
It's subject to campaining, multi-channeled organized voting and what-not...
It really can't qualify as a pure merit test.

I think a better criterion would be selection to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd All NBA teams.

These, at least, are professional experts' selections, and they also avoid the artificial east-west ballancing of the All Star squads.
 
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