AAC Conference Awards

[Stickboy46]

Those times are EST

My prediction for First Team is

Shamet
Morris
Clark
Evans
Gray

I'm not sure you can argue anyone but those 5 for the first team. Milton would have been on there if he didn't miss half the season.

[Stickboy46]

Congrats Landry and Shaq

[Cdizzle]

Congratulations and well-earned, Morris and Shamet!

Nice to see a conference get its 1st team exactly right.

[Shocktoberfest]

My thoughts exactly. That is spot on.

[Shoxfan11]

The Valley must have me confused. Where's the random player from the 9th place team with a high PPG?

[Cdizzle]

Ryan Taylor says Hi.

[Cdizzle]

How good has Shaq been this year? Really fun.

The more I think about it, the more I wonder who is going to be able to handle Shaq in the NCAAT. The #2 defensive team in the nation spent the entire game yesterday with 3 guys bear-hugging him, and he still had 16 and 8 on 10 shots....in 33 minutes. He played 33 minutes at full-go in the most physical game I remember watching in years. Talk about growth.

[Dan]

yet we couldn't get an open shot with 3 guys hugging him. Felt like we were playing 5 on 8

[Cdizzle]

News Flash: Cincy is really good.

[ShockerFever]

Finish 2nd in the AAC, get 2 players on the first team.

Sweep the Valley 4 years in a row, lucky to get a first-teamer.

So happy to be in a real league where the butthurt is minimal.

[RoyalShock]

Finish 2nd in the AAC, get 2 players on the first team.

Sweep the Valley 4 years in a row, lucky to get a first-teamer.

So happy to be in a real league where the butthurt is minimal.

The difference between the Valley of Even and the Ameritocracy!

[WSUwatcher]

Excellent nomenclature, Royal.

[Stickboy46]

No shockers on the individual awards.

Gary Clark is a great player .. but honestly .. I wasn't so impressed with him that I think he should have been DPOY or POY .... just my opinion. Hopefully Shaq got votes for DPOY.

[ShockerEngr]

Cincy has put up exceptional defensive numbers for the season, no surprise one of their players would get the nod for DPOY.

Shaq has certainly keep our defensive numbers from being worse than they are, but he needed help to win this award.

[Cdizzle]

Gary Clark reminds me a lot of Rashard Kelly. And I mean that as a compliment to both players.

I think Evans is more deserving of POY.

Not sure how you go with Brooks over Willis for 6th man (there may be others worthy, this was just an easy comparison off the top of my head), but they tied with us and we had 2 1st teamers, so I'll allow splitting the difference.

[Anthroshock]

I think DWill had a good argument for Sixth man.

[ShockCrazy]

I think DWill had a good argument for Sixth man.

I would have thought it was his for sure. He's one of the toughest matchups in the conference.

[ShockdaWorld]

DWill deserved 6th man consideration.

[ShockdaWorld]

When do they announce POY?

[Stickboy46]

Tomorrow is the rest of the awards.

[ShockdaWorld]

Somebody on the AAC board said it would be Thursday. I hope you are correct.

[ShockCrazy]

No shockers on the individual awards.

Gary Clark is a great player .. but honestly .. I wasn't so impressed with him that I think he should have been DPOY or POY .... just my opinion. Hopefully Shaq got votes for DPOY.

Clark is PoY and it's really not close. At least if you have any interest in numbers at all. Let alone he's the best player on the championship team.

Leads the conference in the following rate stats:
PER, D-Reb %, O-Rating, D-Rating, O-Win Shares, D-Win Shares, Win shares/40, Defensive +/-. Total +/-

Top 5 in the following:
2nd O-reb %, 2nd Total Reb%, 4th Steal %, 4th Block%, 4th T/O%, 4th Offensive +/-

In pure per game stats, 12.6 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.5 steals, 1.3 blocks and only .9 T/O which translates to 16th in scoring, leads in rebounds, 7th in steals, 6th blocks. He's flat out stuffing the stat sheet and doing it all. He's player of the year.

[ShockCrazy]

Two game isn't a season. Also non factor is silly. He put up 11/8/3/3 in Cinci. What exactly did Evans do better than Gary? He scored .7 points more but also took almost 2 shots more a game to do so.

[Cdizzle]

It's probably worth point out that I'd vote for Evans, and therefore I'm not advocating a WSU player over Clark. Furthermore, as such, I don't really care if it ends up being Clark over Evans. That'll be for their team/fans to worry about.

In direct comparisons though, I'd take Evans over Shamet all day.
And I'd take Morris over Clark all day.

[ShockCrazy]

Huh, that's crazy to me. I definitely wouldn't take Evans over Shamet. I definitely take Clark though, he does soooo much that leads to winning on both sides of the ball, he's an amped up Rashard.

[Horn28Clem30]

Landry and Shaq all conference first team, i'll take it. Other 3 are Clark, Grey and Evans.