Terps' Vasquez, Williams Honored on All-ACC Teams
by Ben Broman on Mar 8, 2010 3:38 PM EST
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The All-ACC teams were released today, and were, for the most part, sensible. Unsurprisingly, Greivis Vasquez was a unanimous selection, as were Jon Scheyer and Malcolm Delaney. He's the first Terp to be on the All-ACC first team since Steve Blake did it in his senior season.
Sadly, Eric Hayes, Landon Milbourne, and Sean Mosley all missed the third team - Mosley and Milbourne both had ill-timed slumps which probably killed their chances, and Hayes was a long-shot all along. I do think that if Milbourne hadn't had the late season slow-down that he would've made it, and certainly would've deserved it over, say, Alabi or Hudson.
Another non-surprise came on the ACC All-Rookie team; Derrick Favors led the way in votes, but Maryland forward Jordan Williams was right on his tail, just one vote away. I just want to know who thought that Williams wasn't one of the five best freshmen in the ACC.
Other than that, not a lot was qualm-worthy; Kyle Singler was the last on the first team, and I honestly think he deserved to be ahead of Booker. That's a strange case of a Duke player getting fewer votes than they deserve. Ishmael Smith doesn't seem like a second-team player in my mind, but I can't really complain when the next two options are Gani Lawal and Dorenzo Hudson.
Congrats go out to both Terps. Coach of the Year, Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year are all announced tomorrow.
The full teams are below:
First-team All-ACC
Greivis Vasquez, Maryland (159)
Jon Scheyer, Duke (159)
Malcolm Delaney, Virginia Tech (159)
Trevor Booker, Clemson (137)
Kyle Singler, Duke (134)
Second-team All-ACC
Al-Farouq Aminu, Wake Forest (126)
Nolan Smith, Duke (104)
Sylven Landesberg, Virginia (95)
Tracy Smith, N.C. State (82)
Ishmael Smith, Wake Forest (76)
Third-team All-ACC
Gani Lawal, Georgia Tech (73)
Dorenzo Hudson, Virginia Tech (51)
Chris Singleton, Florida State (50)
Joe Trapani, Boston College (38)
Solomon Alabi, Florida State (30)
ACC All-Rookie Team
Derrick Favors, Georgia Tech (52)
Jordan Williams, Maryland (51)
Durand Scott, Miami (44)
C.J. Harris, Wake Forest (41)
Michael Snaer, Florida State (35)
ACC All-Defensive Team
Chris Singleton, Florida State (48)
Solomon Alabi, Florida State (39)
Trevor Booker, Clemson (21)
Lance Thomas, Duke (17)
L.D. Williams, Wake Forest (16)
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I will stage a small scale riot
In my front yard if Gary is not COY and possibly even if Vaz is not sole POY.
"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down, so that my critics can kiss my a**!"
-Bobby Knight
I'll join
I can probably walk there.
Don't give up, don't ever give up. - Jim Valvano
Fear The Turtle!!
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Mar 8, 2010 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
i'll join
where do you live? we could make it at a neutral site so we can split the traveling.
Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com gave Gary COY and Huevos POY on the site today.
Columbia
Sun doesn’t hit my front yard so I still have a yard full of snow. We won’t be able to light anything on fire which is a good thing.
"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down, so that my critics can kiss my a**!"
-Bobby Knight
How can't Greivis be POY?
Based on the voting, you take GV off the Terps & where would they be? Scheyer & his face, had another First Teamer, Second Teamer & All Defensive.
Who is the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association?
I can’t find a website detailing it’s composition. I am wondering what % is North Carolina media… whoever they are, I hope they give Greivis Vasquez and GW their deserved POY/COY honors…
No one is mentioning this
But no Sean Mosely for Defensive. We own some of the best stats for defending.
JW should have made ALL ACC
Jordan was so good, and so valuable, he should have at least made ALL ACC, third team.
Let's be honest...
This list is pretty much all about who are the leading scorers in the conference, with the exception of Chris Singleton, who is a defensive beast and athletic freak. If I was picking the team, I’d take Hayes instead of Trapani, but I can understand why the latter was picked (again, scoring).
To say that Milbourne would have made the team if he wasn’t slumping is somewhat irrelevant, given that his “slump” involves just one double-digit scoring effort over the past 7 games (I’m implying that it’s beyond a slump at this point).
I think the ROY voting will be close, but I can’t see JWill topping Favors, who IMO is a better overall player than Lawal and probably the most talented player in the conference.
One more note: Lance Thomas on the all-defensive team?!? I’ve always thought of him as a decent defender, but not all-ACC decent.
Frankly, I don't even pay attention to the All-Defensive team
Outside of shotblockers and steal specialists, it’s impossible to get it right. Most of these people cover a certain team or area, and so much of defense is just little things that don’t appear in stats (at least not the stats these people look at). terpfan2011 is right, Mosley’s been great defensively, but not in a statsheet way and these people don’t watch every Maryland game like we do. Thomas has the reputation as a good defender on the best team, and as a result got some undeserved votes.
Agree that it’s all about scoring, but, like you said, that’s what every All-Conference is about, so I don’t see it as a big slight. That’s pretty much the criteria, and given them, it made sense. As for Milbourne, perhaps bad wording on my part. Mid-way through the year, he was on the third team, maybe even on the upper end of it.
Part of the problem is that defenses have learned to not give Milbourne open looks from mid-range, but it really is just an extended slump. All his mid-range jumpers are right on line and roll back to front then out. He is millimeters away from drilling them. He has been less sharp on his layups and work down low.
Ben Broman
Your article on Vas v. Scheyer is linked as one of the top news on CBS sports. Nice Job!!!
A real team
Just out of curiosity, when was the last time a team finished first in ACC & only had 2 players on the All-ACC team (out of 25 spots)?
That says a lot about this years team & why GW gets choked up talking about’em.
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