Better rookie combo?

[Killakobe81]

Thorton & Collison vs. Caspi & Evans

Before you take the obvious rookie of the year (evans) and his young team-mate ...

Remember Collison & Thorton started a good chunk of the season and have won more games ...

Discuss.

[BRHornet45]

lol at people still misspelling ThorNton's name!

sons of course its Thornton and Collison!

[dickface]

Curry & Williams

[DPG21920]

Casspi and Evans.

[Killakobe81]

lol at people still misspelling ThorNton's name!

sons of course its Thornton and Collison!

My bad! good young player though ...

[Killakobe81]

No good reasons being given ...

[gaKNOW!blee]

It could be Evans and anyone and I would rather have the combo. He is going to run this league one day.

lol Grizzlies.

[BRHornet45]

No good reasons being given ...

son Thornton has become the 2nd best player on our team. He was only a mid-2nd round draft pick and no one expected him to average 14 points per game in his rookie season. He is playing with a chip on his shoulder for being so overlooked and whenever he starts he averages over 20 points per game. he WILL be an All Star by his 3rd season (if not by next season). The dude is legit.

Collison did a decent job starting at point guard whenever CP3 went down. The kid still has a LOT to learn and is very selfish with the basketball, but puts up good numbers for a rookie.

[noob cake]

Love for Hill + Budinger?

[Killakobe81]

I dont think Collison is selfish but he is most effective using his speed and driving to the cup ... he is not a classic PG (selfless) but i dont think selfish ...

[oh crap]

http://lauramcwilliams.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/confused-monkey1.jpg

so he's not selfish or unselfish?

[Kai]

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/writers/seth_davis/01/21/mailbag/chase-budinger.jpg

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/d3/fullj.e60d306bad25dc3ca8d09b33ff832b02/e60d306bad25dc3ca8d09b33ff832b02-getty-90044338.jpg

[sexinthatsx]

Dumb question, Evans and Casspi... NEXT

[BRHornet45]

Dumb question, Evans and Casspi... NEXT

idiot

[Ghazi]

Ibaka/Harden > Thornton/Collison

Thornton and Collison have guided their team to a 35-43 record. crofl.

[BRHornet45]

Ibaka/Harden > Thornton/Collison

Thornton and Collison have guided their team to a 35-43 record. crofl.

yet they absolutely dominated and nutted in the faces of your Mavs

[Ghazi]

cROFL regular season split moral victories.

[BRHornet45]

crofl regular season split moral victories.

come at me bro!

[Bob Lanier]

Rubio and Flynn, LOL

[DxB]

Completely agree, these two dont get the props they deserve... they've been fuckin ON FIRE all year and have started so one of them needs to be in ROY voting!

[Muser]

lol rocket homers picking Budinger/Hill

[Killakobe81]

I was a day ahead ... (From TrueHoop today)

Zach Lowe (he of CelticsHub fame) wrote a great story for The New York Times' blog making a case that, relative to draft position, the Hornets' rookies Darren Collison and Marcus Thornton are among the most productive picks ever.

The Times' Howard Beck tweeted about that, and my initial response, by Twitter, however, was that those guys have something amazing that most lower picks do not: A coach who is really motivated to make them look good. After Byron Scott was fired, Jeff Bower became not just the guy who picked those players, but also the one who hands out the playing time. That's a powerful combination.

Now, let me be clear: the players have done the work, and earned all that time. Collison and Thornton have earned everything they have -- any team would love to have those guys. What's impossible to say is how many other players picked late in the draft have also done that work and would also be fantastic with the kind of coach's support, and minutes, that those two enjoy. They got an opportunity a lot of players don't get, especially those drafted outside the lottery.

Lowe is right to call them some of the most productive rookies drafted that late. But a wholly different thing is to call them the best players drafted that late, because without a coach's support and playing time, it's almost impossible to tell what most late-drafted players would have done.

Beck replied that he thinks, by and large, players get the playing time they deserve. It seems like a pretty simple thing, though, really. Players who produce get time, and players who don't produce sit. Some other tweeters jumped in and pretty much accused me of disrespecting those Hornet rookies, which is the last thing I'd want to do end Excerpt

My post:
again I am not saying they are DEFINITIVELY the best rookie pair this year (or any year)
And as the article states they SURe have had more PT than most rookies outside of Curry, Evans and Jennings

But they HAVE produced even if their team's record is poor ...

[Killakobe81]

36 for Marcus tonight ...

[BRHornet45]

and this top highlight of the night for ESPN ...

iXzLCz-K-rs

[Killakobe81]

Well that is why posted this I STILL think Evans is ROY but the Hornets combo is better IMHO Marcus is the steal of teh draft even though Spur fan will tell you it's Blair ...