BTN All-Decade Team

College Basketball
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Who do you have for player of the decade? Kaminsky?

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I can buy that. If that is the case, who is your Player of the Decade?

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I think Stauskas makes first team. POY on a big ten championship team, easy money.

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I donā€™t think weā€™ll have any active players on the list, so exclude Garza.

That leaves this group:
Green
Kaminsky
Burke
Valentine
Zeller/KBD/Stauskas for two spotsā€¦

Player of the Decade is tough but It think Kaminsky is probably the pick?

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Iā€™ll be shocked if they put Stauskas over Winston. I think itā€™s more likely Green, Kaminsky, Burke, Valentine, Zeller and one of them is also POD.

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They mentioned there are 16 players on the all-decade team though. If thereā€™s a Player of The Decade thatā€™s not on the 1st Team youā€™ have to say there are 17 players on it, right?

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I think you could justify that math in either direction

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If active players are excluded that does make it easier. And Stauskas is the easiest to leave off that list, frankly. I agree that you canā€™t have him on first team and Winston on second team.

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I would have guessed Winston as first team. I think he deserves it.

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Yeah any of the Zeller/KBD/Stauskas group over Winston seems nuts. 4-year player, three of his four years were better than any of that groupā€™s 2nd best season. CPOY, first team all conference twice. When I think back on this decade, he is no doubt one of the five players that shaped the conference the most.

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I agree that Winston deserves first team.

Also I have a hard time pegging Zeller over Stauskas. I feel like Zellerā€™s freshman year was a better than Nikā€™s (Nik also played on a stacked team). However, Nikā€™s sophomore year was better than Zellerā€™s and also had more accolades to go with it.

In general if Stauskas gets left off, it seems crazy to me that arguably a top 3 team (I can admit bias in top 3 but dont think it is farfetched) in the league over the past decade only had one of the best 15 players.

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Forgot all about Evan Turner tooā€¦

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Lol that any of these guys will be left off while Murphy and Craft make it over them.

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Also tough to believe 2013 Indiana deserves three of the top 15 players.

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It was a pretty awesome team, though.

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11-20 being the decade wouldnt have Evan turner right? His last year was 2010

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Ah, wasnā€™t sure where they drew the cut off. This is on the BTN site:

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So no Garza for sure.

Which means 1st team is for sure:
Draymond
Burke
Valentine
Kaminsky

With Turner, Stauskas, Zeller, battling for the last spot??

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Gotta imagine his overlap to the previous decade will leave him off. Similar reason to Garza that you gave

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Jajuan Johnson was also an overlap, but had 1 more year in the decade.