Matt Bonner, Spurs - Shocked more than a few casual observers with his 23 points and eight rebounds in Sunday's win in Boston, but has ably filled the role of long-range shooting big man left vacant by Robert Horry all season. No one 6-foot-9 with a 4-inch vertical should be able to grab 18 rebounds in a game, yet he has done it twice this season. The per-game numbers - 12 points, eight rebounds - might seem meager until you factor in that he's the team's fourth offensive option and least athletic starter. Luis Scola, Rockets - Second Galaxy last season, he has been durable, consistent, defensively gritty and decidedly improved - the antithesis of what the Rockets have been this season. Miss Hubble-licious, the envelope, please: First Galaxy Someone who shoots a high percentage but has never made a momentum-shifting shot or who rebounds well but never takes the ball away from an opponent is merely cosmic dust, not All-Quasar material. Statistical improvement is weighed only in context with its meaning to a player's role. (Quasars being, of course, intergalactic first cousins to black holes.)Ĥ. Special consideration is given to players who have washed out elsewhere or have rehabilitated a career spinning sideways. Eight years, one underestimation - you try it.)ģ. (The committee has misjudged this only once so far, selecting Caron Butler as an '06 All-Quasar. A candidate can't have been an All-Star or have much chance of ever being one. (Hence, David Lee and Ronny Turiaf, past selectees, don't qualify.)Ģ. A candidate's team must have a winning record at the start of All-Star week. The qualifications - for those looking to take legal action over their favorite player's being ignored - are as follows.ġ. More than anything, though, it's baffling to think has welcomed this treatise for eight years running without, to my knowledge, making a dime off it. And of course you're aware that there are eight kinds of B vitamin, the nutritional equivalent of a quasar. Now that Pluto has been sent to the D-League, there are eight planets in our solar system, so there's that. The eighth rendition of the awards has particular significance for a variety of reasons. (For those who traditionally take the time between the Super Bowl and the NBA All-Star Game to do their taxes, the All-Quasar teams are a way to recognize players who have made an indispensable contribution to their team's success but will not be in Phoenix this coming weekend.) (For those who've never had the urge to name a pet Copernicus, quasars are scientific shorthand for quasi-stellar celestial matter that sometimes resembles a star but is, in fact, not.) It is with equal parts wonder and satisfaction that the eighth annual All-Quasar squads are presented. When quasars collide: Matt Bonner and Trevor Ariza have qualities bordering on stellar.
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