Here are my choices:
Singler
Henderson
hans(travel)
lawson(no neck)
Teague
This leaves off several good players. But what can I say? I bleed Royal Blue! Go Duke!
Talk about some tough decisions. I can name four players on 15-501 that deserve to be on the first team.
Should be a fun discussion, so get to it...
Here are my choices:
Singler
Henderson
hans(travel)
lawson(no neck)
Teague
This leaves off several good players. But what can I say? I bleed Royal Blue! Go Duke!
Not yet halfway in the conference season, so things could change, but here IMO are the leading candidates for 1st Team All-ACC (in no particular order)
Tyrese Rice
Jeff Teague
Gerald Henderson
Kyle Singler
Danny Green
Tyler Hansbrough
Toney Douglas
Jack McClinton
Next group, could possibly play their way in...
Greivis Vasquez
James Johnson
Ty Lawson
Gani Lawal
A.D. Vassallo
Trevor Booker
Some tough choices...
No Tyrese Rice? He's averaging 18 pts and 6 assists. Ty Lawson is at 16 and 7, rounded nicely.
Trevor Booker is one rebound shy of averaging a double double, and is a point higher than Green in average scoring.
McClinton's stats are barely under Teague's.
It may actually come down to who plays on the better team...
EDIT: I gotta speed up the typing...
Three really good players are going to be left off the first team All-ACC:
Henderson - D
Singler - D
Hansbrough - NC
Lawson - NC
Teague - BC
McClintock - M
Toney - FS
Rice - BC
sagegrouse
on a five-man team,but this year we may see a tie vote with 6 players selected because of the number of excellent guards and wings.
Caveat: present trends continue.
So, to solve the space problem, I will name 6 to the first team:
Singler(POY)
Henderson
Hanstravel
Teague
Douglas(DPOY)--who almost single-handedly beat UNC last night ,while dominating the game on both ends, and who unfortunately tried to draw a foul in the last seconds of a tie game on Hanstravel that had as much chance of being called as Aminu's closing foul on Hendo-----a magnificent player and leader.
Lawson
Best regards,
Blueprofessor
It's McClinton, not McClintock.
I think Singler and Hansbrough are givens, and I suspect Teague will be as well. The last two spots are interesting. Henderson is making a strong push right now. If he keeps it up, he'll be there as well. Lawson, Vassallo, McClinton, and Rice can all make a case too. There's a lot of ACC still to play, though.
The end of the ACC regular season is just two weeks away. With the extra teams and the high level play in the conference this year, there are more players deserving of All ACC recognition than in recent years. The following is a listing by team of those who, IMO, are deserving of consideration for a spot on one of the three teams chosen by the ACC sportswriters and sportscasters:
BC – Rice, Trapani
Md – Vasquez
Virginia - Landesberg
Va Tech – Vassallo, Delaney, Allen
Duke – Singler, Henderson
UNC – Hansbrough, Lawson, Green, Ellington
Wake – Teague, Johnson
NC St – Costner
Clemson – Booker, Rivers
Ga Tech – Lawal
Fla St – Douglas
Miami – McClinton
At this point in time, my 1st team would be composed of Hansbrough, Teague, Singler, Booker and Lawson with a host of guards who have outplayed Lawson head-to-head on the second team (Douglas, Rice, McClinton and Vasquez) along with Henderson. If Florida State winds up in 2nd place, then Douglas deserves to be on the 1st team, IMO. If the Devils win out then Henderson joins Singler on 1st team otherwise, only one Duke player deserves to be on the first team and Singler has been the top all around player on Duke since the beginning of the season.
gw67.
gw67's list is excellent, thorough. Since the list numbers 21, one way to look at this would be to eliminate Landesberg (giving him frosh POY, with Ed Davis in 2d), and then divide the remaining 20 into all-ACC teams 1-4. I'll limit myself to just teams 1-3. And while one could almost have at least 4 guards on first team, I'll not go that route.
1st -
Hansbrough
McClinton
Douglas
Lawson
Booker
2d -
Singler
Rice
Teague
Green
Rivers
3d-
Trapani
Delaney
Hendo
Ellington
Johnson
Honestly, my view could substantially change in next 2 weeks, depending on who leads his team upward in the standings. Obviously, for example, Vasquez could jump from just missing to, say, 2d team, if he leads Md to maybe 9-7. Guys could move up or down; and I sure do hope Singler merits 1st team, and Hendo 2d, by what they do in next 2 weeks.
I"ll stop at the first team. BTW, who decides All-ACC? I'm guessing writers? Whoever it is they have a tough job on their hands!
1st team:
Lawson (No-brainer)
Booker (Over Hansbrough)
Teague (If he plays pre-wake losing streak caliper for the rest of the year)
G (In ACC play he's been our best player. We're No. 2-3 so...)
Douglas (Dont like him much but he's the reason they're not on the bubble.)
Coach OTY - Tough choice between Hamilton and Purnell. Purnell had more to work with so I'll give the nod to Hamilton.
There are 11 players who are "LOCKS", imo, to make one of the three All-ACC teams:
UNC: hansbrough, lawson
DUKE: henderson, singler
WAKE: teague
CLEMSON: booker/rivers (at least 1)
FSU: douglas
BOSTON COLLEGE: rice
MARYLAND: vazquez
MIAMI: mcclinton
VA Tech: vassallo
Here how I rank them:
FIRST team:
t. hansbrough (unc)
t. lawson (unc)
j. teague (wake)
g. henderson (duke)
t. rice (bc)
SECOND team:
k. singler (duke)
j. mcclinton (miami)
t. douglas (fsu)
booker/rivers (clemson)
g. vasquez (maryland)
THIRD team:
vassallo (va tech)
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The remaining 4 players will come from a list including the following:
UNC: ellington, green
DUKE: scheyer
WAKE: johnson, aminu
CLEMSON: booker/rivers, oglesby
VA TECH: delaney, allen
GA TECH: lawal
VIRGINIA: landesberg
BC: trapani
NC STATE: costner
My picks:
green/ellington (unc)
booker/rivers (clemson)
johnson (wake)
lawal (ga tech)
Honorable mention: green/ellington (unc), scheyer (duke), aminu (wake), oglesby (clemson), delaney (va tech), allen (va tech), landesberg (uva), costner (nc state)
I apologize if this has been discussed before. I used the search and did not come up with anything. If it has please move/delete it.
This year seems to be as tough to pick an All ACC first team as it has in many years. I was curious what people thought the ultimate selections would be. Good arguments can be made for Henderson, Hansbrough, Lawson, McClinton, Douglas, Booker, Singler, Rice, Vasquez, Teague, and several others. What five do you think will get the nod? With so many quality players, do you think a team (UNC probably) will get two players on the first team? The ultimate decisions will be made in a few weeks, so it is a reasonable time to start thinking about it.
Tough to pick just 5... I think the only possibility of 2 players from 1 team would be Lawson and Hansbrough.
Here's my guess at the 1st team:
Lawson
Douglas
Henderson
Booker
Hansbrough
I could definitely see Teague or McClinton get the honor instead of Lawson or Douglas. The ACC is so deep at the guard position. But I think Lawson will probably get the honor since Carolina gets so much more publicity than any other team with the exception of Duke.
Who picks the teams? If it's the media, then hanstravel is a lock no matter how he plays. If not then he may not make first team. My choice have changed since first asked.
Henderson
lawson
McClinton
Teague
Booker
Go Duke!
I GUARANTEE Douglas will be on the team.
Teague
McClinton
Douglas
Henderson
Hansbrough
Lawson, Rice, and Booker on the outside looking in... but that could change with some games left to play
Henderson
Lawson
TH
Rice
Booker
Douglas, Teague, McClintock close behind. Singler is borderline 2nd/3rd IMHO.
Lot's of basketball left to be played and the games in the next couple weeks will be a MAJOR factor in determining these teams.
Sadly, I agree. Kyle seems to be fading coming down the stretch. I think Wake was keying on him Sunday, but IIRC he still only had 6 points about half way through the second half while not being really effective on the boards or on D (to be fair, he did turn it around with some points and a big board or two in crunch time).
My picks so far would be:
Lawson
Henderson
Rice
McClinton
Booker
I think Douglas is the hardest guy to leave off that list. Hansbough has games where he's not one of the 3 most effective on his team, let alone in the league.