Presenting: The SB Nation Reader's Choice Awards (Rookie of the Year)

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Apr 17, 2007 9:28 PM CDT in News

At the latest yearly SBNation hoops symposium (in Stockholm), my blogging cohorts and I agreed upon a user-driven end-of-season-awards extravaganza. This means you can choose the recipients, and as a bonus this keeps you from reading our played-out explanations over what makes a player 'valuable'.

Over the next six days, you will have the chance to vote on six key awards (MVP, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, 6th Man of the Year, and Most Improved Player). Each of our twelve sites will be posting open threads where you can cast your vote.

Each of the twelve sites will be posting an open thread for a different award over the next six days. You may vote at any of the 12 sites. (keep it to one vote(one site) for each award, plzzzz) For each category, we ask that you list your top 3 in order. First-place votes are worth 3 points, second-place 2, and third-place one.

The voting will close for each award on midnight Monday night. At that point, each site will tally up the points, and we will then add the totals of all twelve sites to figure out the winners of each category.

This is the thread for Rookie of the Year. Vote away.

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Really

Wow matt, BaB got the joke of award...

But I'm going to have to go with he who made perhaps the biggest differnece of any rookie ever...

Drumroll please....

Oleksiy Pecherov

Ok really here we go.

1st: Roy...pretty obvious
2nd: Paul Milsap not a sexy pick, but I award success, not stats. He was part of a huge turnaround, and plays alot like the mailman
3rd: Tyrus. Same as above, sans mailman. He was a part of a large increase in wins, and though his stats aren't sexy, he's in the best position of any of the rookies in the race to win a 'chip

by milesgmsu on Apr 17, 2007 9:33 PM CDT reply actions

the voting doesn't rotate by site

every site here is doing R.O.Y. first, and then we move on by the day.

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Apr 17, 2007 9:34 PM CDT up reply actions

i just read bullets forever

and picked up that...can you delete my comment so i appear as slightly less of a docuhe

furthermore, i found it funny paxjax getting ripped on other sites...again

also, who decided in the ecent of a tie?

by milesgmsu on Apr 17, 2007 9:35 PM CDT up reply actions

not me

your douche-y comment stays!

(j/k, you just read it wrong, no big deal)

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Apr 17, 2007 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions

hey matt

after looking at all the other SB sites, i've come to the conclusion your site is the cleanest looking...not to pull a colossuss, but the others had way to much shit going on...

by milesgmsu on Apr 17, 2007 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions

This is now the third place

That the Big Oily joke has been used.

Just felt like pointing that out. I think he's developing a cult following.

Bullets Forever, your Washington Wizards blog.

by Mike Prada on Apr 17, 2007 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions

My Vote

Roy
Milsap
Bargnani

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Apr 17, 2007 9:40 PM CDT reply actions

My Vote

Roy
Bargnani
Aldridge

And yet I'm still glad we took Thomas.

by nas on Apr 17, 2007 9:45 PM CDT reply actions

agreed

If Thomas was on Portland and got all those available minutes we'd get to read how great a pick he was...

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Apr 17, 2007 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions

Rookie of the Year

1. Stacey King
Stace has impressed many people in his first full season, and Thabo Sefolooo-Sha rolls off his tongue like the gooey juices found only in canned fruit salad.

2. Ben Gordon
This should make up for being snubbed/dubbed 6th man, because Emeka Who? and the expansion Bobcats needed the publicity.

3. Joey Crawford
That was the first NBA game he ever called, right?

by Paxson Jackson @ Blog a Bull on Apr 17, 2007 9:52 PM CDT reply actions

lol

I thought back then Gordon got screwed out of RoY and today it's even more obvious. No rookie had a bigger impact that year than Gordon.

by nas on Apr 17, 2007 9:54 PM CDT up reply actions

ha, agreed on Gordon

Not sure about Stacey King...I think Kendall Gill did a good job filling the role of Lamont Sanford this season on the postgame show :-)

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Apr 17, 2007 10:03 PM CDT up reply actions

Rookie of the Year

Roy
Bargnani
Gay

by Goostafer on Apr 17, 2007 9:52 PM CDT reply actions

Brandon Roy, 'Blazers

Not considering their last game, Portland came out this year with +11 wins from last season(pretty damn good), which I think is much attributed to Roy. He seems to be a hard-worker, not lagging that much in areas of his game, but more not having enough experience. He has a decent midrange jump, and likes to take it to the whole. Having a lineup with him and Aldridge is going to be a force in the league.

I think he's going to have a couple troubles next year, however, because of the early success he had in '06-'07. He had a great first year and, as we all know, if he doesn't improve his second year, he will be blasted upon on all his fans and critics. He's a little injury-prone also, which can't be good for the a player in only his rookie year.

Oh, and I'll tell you who I think's the Least Valuable Player: Adam "Dirty Sanchez" Morrison. I bet Charlotte's really regretting passing Roy up right now.

Once, when having sex in a tractor trailer, some of Andre the Giants' sperm got into the engine. We now know that tractor as Optimus Prime.

by NittanyBull on Apr 17, 2007 9:53 PM CDT reply actions

Hole*

oh similar-sounding words, how you plague my writing.

Once, when having sex in a tractor trailer, some of Andre the Giants' sperm got into the engine. We now know that tractor as Optimus Prime.

by NittanyBull on Apr 17, 2007 9:54 PM CDT up reply actions

Oh, and 2.) Gay 3.) Aldridge

Once, when having sex in a tractor trailer, some of Andre the Giants' sperm got into the engine. We now know that tractor as Optimus Prime.

by NittanyBull on Apr 17, 2007 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions

Dalibor of the Year Award

It's a toss up between Patrick O'Bryant, and Saer Sene.

I'm done zinging.

by Paxson Jackson @ Blog a Bull on Apr 17, 2007 10:10 PM CDT reply actions

I rescind my picks

1.) Andre.

En route to the first ever ROY(Even though he started in the NBA in'04... he's that good), MVP, 6th man, Most Improved, and Defensive Player awards all simultaneously. The day he receives this, he grows wings that span 8-feet with no signs of irises, flying off, never to be seen again.

Once, when having sex in a tractor trailer, some of Andre the Giants' sperm got into the engine. We now know that tractor as Optimus Prime.

by NittanyBull on Apr 17, 2007 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions

Tyrus Thomas.

Yeah, that's right.

Here are my unassailable reasons:

(1) He plays for the Bulls;

(2) His swat and dunk sequence against the Hornets.

Indisputable.

by 1958ChiTown on Apr 17, 2007 10:10 PM CDT reply actions

ROY

Roy
Bargnani
Garbajosa

by Big D on Apr 17, 2007 10:28 PM CDT reply actions

ROY

Roy
Barg-nanas
TT (homer pick)

by fundamentallysound on Apr 17, 2007 10:36 PM CDT reply actions

My picks

milesgmsu--Over 1500 posts since last June. Prolific production.
Paxson Jackson--Good insight, great desire. Would be the pick to take over should any spots open up.

drumroll please...

1. chgobor--Through the ups and the downs, nobody is more positive, or more polite (a remarkable quality in this "Interweb" age). A true inspiration to commenters and posters everywhere.

by bullshooter on Apr 17, 2007 11:17 PM CDT reply actions

DAMNIT!

I knew I should have gone with some phenomenal swag to bolster my bid for this award.

Next season, Miles, PaxJax and Chgobor... it's on!

by paxson43 on Apr 18, 2007 12:55 AM CDT up reply actions

Thank you for this prestigeous award!

This blog has allowed me to vent and prevented serious psychiatric problems.

by chgobr on Apr 23, 2007 12:09 PM CDT up reply actions

Good rookies on good teams

Tyrus Thomas
Thabo Sefolosha
Andrea Bargnani

Okay, I admit it: Tyrus Thomas could dunk on me.

by preverbal on Apr 17, 2007 11:28 PM CDT reply actions

No contest...

Roy - Leading the team already.
Bargnani - Helping Toronto make the leap.
Tyrus Thomas - Playing at a high level for one of the best in the East.

Shaq is eating teams.

by SouthSideIrish @ Blog a Bull on Apr 18, 2007 12:25 AM CDT reply actions

Roy, obviously

followed by Bargnani (read Simmons' comments about him; he took some time off from sucking off Rajon Ronod) and Millsap (because he just generally kicks ass.

Oh, and Sheldon Williams is about 175th. How do the Hawks suck so much? How is it possible?

by Chalkwhite on Apr 18, 2007 12:51 AM CDT reply actions

Rondo*

Damn it.

by Chalkwhite on Apr 18, 2007 12:51 AM CDT reply actions

My ROY

Roy
Aldridge
Garbajosa

But Roy by a mile.

by paxson43 on Apr 18, 2007 1:01 AM CDT reply actions

I didn't watch enough games

outside of the Bulls to really vote on this, but I give it a go based on what I saw versus the Bulls.

Bargnani...he killed the Bulls earlier this season in a Mehmet Okur kinda way.
Randy Foye...even without the game winning shot. He was the T-Wolves best player that game.
Tyrus...yeah, it's the homer pick, but when Noc went down, he stepped it up, for lack of a better description. Can you picture the Bulls without him being the first non-guard off the bench? Hopefully the playoffs don't scare him into Nov-Feb Tyrus.

Honorable mention: I did see Aldridge, and his low post game on the Bulls would have been a nice addition. Roy, for his savvy.

Sweet Home Sports

by james@lifeinthecell on Apr 18, 2007 5:47 AM CDT reply actions