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Poll: NBA Rookie of the Year 2004

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You'd think that LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony would be shoe-ins as the top-two possibilities, but there are some very surprising Euros who were picked up in the middle to late rounds.

Personally, my dark horse is Zarko Cabarkapa (18.3 ppg, 7.8 rpg in the Rocky Mountain Revue), but then again, I'm biased. 😀
 
Originally posted by: JeffCos
What do you have against Darko Milicic for not including him in your poll?
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I forgot about him. 😕 Sorry, I was going off of the guys I've seen in the summer leagues, and I guess he's not playing yet.
 
Hrmmm... Great question... Lebron should win it if he puts up semi-decent numbers.

Heres my top 5
1.) Lebron James
2.) Carmelo Anthony
3.) Dwayne Wade
4.) Reece Gaines
5.) Zoran Planinic

Edit
Dwayne Wade- good experienced college player on a bad team.
Reece Gaines- going to get pt, another experienced college player.
Zoran Planinic- THE backup point guard for the Nets.
 
I'm a Suns fan, so I voted for Zarko. Kind of a silly vote since I don't think he will get the minutes behind Marion and Stoudemire.

I watched a couple of the summer league games, and the dude has no fear. He can really put it on the floor for a 6'11" guy.

Say what you want about the Suns failure to do well in the playoffs, but this team can draft. Michael Finley, Amare Stoudemire, Steve Nash, Shawn Marion - all with a #9 or later.
 
Originally posted by: jw791
I'm a Suns fan, so I voted for Zarko. Kind of a silly vote since I don't think he will get the minutes behind Marion and Stoudemire.

I watched a couple of the summer league games, and the dude has no fear. He can really put it on the floor for a 6'11" guy.

Say what you want about the Suns failure to do well in the playoffs, but this team can draft. Michael Finley, Amare Stoudemire, Steve Nash, Shawn Marion - all with a #9 or later.
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Frank's already said we'll see a lot of Cabarkapa-Stoudemire-Marion-Johnson-Marbury lineups, JW. 😉 The kid looks like a young Dirk Nowitzki to mee, also. I think he'll get plenty of PT. You should come over to www.phxsuns.net for Suns talk, ASFN is great for the Cards and D-Backs but so-so for Suns, IMO.

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
It's obviously way too early to be sure, but the most logical bet is LeBron James.
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Just out of curiousity, why is it "most logical"? Other players such as Lampe, Anthony, Cabarkapa more than overshadowed him in the summer leagues. LeBron will be good, in time, but I don't know that he'll have a better rookie year than say, oh, KG. I think he'll definitely do better than Kobe did.
 
I'm not saying he'll be the biggest star in the draft, but Josh Howard is a mature 4-year college player who is ready to contribute immediately to a high profile team. He's had a great summer season too. If he's able to break into the Mavs starting lineup (which the Dallas papers are saying is entirely possible), he might be the ROTY.
 
Who cares? The award is a joke anyways. That was proved last year when Yao Ming was screwed out of the award based solely on the fact that the Suns made the playoffs, edging the Rockets by one game.

Yes, Amare and Yao's stats were virtually identical but Yao was much more consistent overall. Amare would have monster games and then stretches where he totally disappeared for a few games. Yao had brilliant games too but played more steady than Amare did.

The ROY is has been proven meaningless. Yao Ming is an All Star, thats a more important distinction anyways.
 
I voted for Anthony, but I actually feel that Lebron James will win the award. I think Anthony will perform better, but James will have too much hype behind him. Both players have potential to put up some impressive numbers . . mostly because both of their teams suck.
 
Lebron james isn't even doing too well in the summer leagues is he ?

I think Carmelo Anthony will be the rookie of the year for 04.

Lebron has a lot to learn.
 
Boris Diaw, I think he plays for atlanta. I saw some summer league games, he's incredible, scottie pippen style.

Diaw
James
Josh Howard
Anthony
Wade
Heinrich 🙂P)


<------ bulls follower 🙂


/edit: diaw won his french leagues mvp, scoring 7pts a game...thats scottie pippen style!
 
Originally posted by: Aceshigh
Who cares? The award is a joke anyways. That was proved last year when Yao Ming was screwed out of the award based solely on the fact that the Suns made the playoffs, edging the Rockets by one game.

Yes, Amare and Yao's stats were virtually identical but Yao was much more consistent overall. Amare would have monster games and then stretches where he totally disappeared for a few games. Yao had brilliant games too but played more steady than Amare did.

The ROY is has been proven meaningless. Yao Ming is an All Star, thats a more important distinction anyways.
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Hmm, Rookie of the Year is voted for by coaches, press, etc. All Star game starters are selected by fan vote . . . and that's somehow more relevent? Whatever. I'm not even going to adress what you say about Amare's consistency because you obviously didn't watch many Suns games last year.

 
Amare deserved the award. He finished much stronger and was more consistent than ming, who faded, even with a bad toe that slowed him.
 
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