Walton Second Team All-B1G
Walton's O-rating: 124.2 at 23% usage. Trimble and Mason: 106.4 and 107.9 at 25% and 28% usage, respectively. It's just laughable. If all you're going to do is look at PPG and vote on that, why even have these awards?
traditional stats as well. Absolute joke he wasn't first team.
Conference per game averages:
fg% 3p% Pts Reb Ast
Walton: .453 .426 16.1 5.2 4.9
Tremble: .414 .316 16.1 3.9 4.1
Mason: .374 .389 17.2 3.9 4.8
Guys like Bird and MJ used to light guys up upon hearing news like this. Now, I'm not saying Walton is Bird or MJ, but he has a little fight in him.
If only there were an example of Walton responding to a slight that we could use as a reference for how he responds to a perceived insult.
Blue unis for the rest of the season?
can wear whichever unis we want? We wore our blues at home against Illinois when they wore their away orange. Don't see why we couldn't do that in the BTT.
whoa where did the points cannon come from? I've never been more jealous of imaginary points!
at least Bridges had some help on his team. Jok was all by himself and still got Iowa to 10-8 in conference. They only had one other double digit scorer, someone I've never heard of at 12 ppg. Iowa somehow beat Purdue, Maryland, and Wisconsin.
Jok averaged 20 ppg. Bridges only scored 20 or more 4 times. Plus, Bridges was hurt and missed 2 big 10 games and scored 10 points total in his first 2 games. Consistency is more important in these all-big team things because you have to impress the voters when they see you. I think that hurt Walton as well. He may have gotten a few 1st team votes from the last 8 opponents, but he wasn't an all first-team guy in the first 10 games.
actually Jok averaged 18.2 in the B10 and shot under 40% from the field. {he actually played better last season] And, putting aside Ward [an admittedly big thing to do], I'm not sure Iowa didn't end up having a deeper rotation.
Deserved Better. He really picked it up the last couple months.
Nobody wants to play M, and Derrick will continue to lead the way.
It is a nice award and all, but if Walton has a fire lit under him and plays out of his mind the next 4 weeks, it is well worth the trade off.
Derrick probably cares...But sure, I'm sure he'd take a tourny run over the award every time. Still, it sucks that he didn't get the recogniton he deserves.
Not the right result based on last 6 weeks. But based on first 6 weeks of Big 10 play I can see the arguments. For our purposes I'd rather have a guy be hot now than in December.
his first four games in conference play were not incredible but he still averaged 11 ppg, 4 rpg, 3 apg. Then he started dominating in the first Nebraska game and didn't look back.
Most overrated player in the conference.
This is a ludicrous result, but a good one for Michigan. Walton has been focused since Morgan's comments against Illinois. I'm not normally a big believer in the power of disrespekt, but anything that helps him maintain his focus is good for me.
Here's hoping they get another shot at Minnesota. Michigan would win by 25.
Maybe the last 3-9 years
Walton has a bigger trophy waiting for him.
Walton has been one of the best couple of players in the conference for the past month. Nobody is asking that the first few games be erased, and if there were some top-caliber player that replaced him, then that's fine. Nick Mason is not that player.
Start with the stats in the first response in this thread: Mason scores more points, by being much less efficient. He does have a higher assist rate as well -- a point in his favor -- but he lags in every other statistical category. His season simply hasn't been as good as Walton's. It makes no sense whatosever to elevate Mason ahead of Walton.
This came up elsewhere, so I looked at their stats and compared them from the first 9 games of the conference slate and the last 9 games.
First 9
| Walton | Mason | |
|---|---|---|
| Shooting % | 46% | 34% |
| #Shots | 83 | 122 |
| A/G | 3.2 | 5.3 |
| Reb/G | 5.1 | 3.6 |
| Stls/G | .9 | 1.8 |
| TO/G | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| PPG | 15.1 | 15.2 |
Last 9
| Walton | Mason | |
|---|---|---|
| Shooting % | 49% | 40% |
| #Shots | 107 | 148 |
| A/G | 6.7 | 4.3 |
| Reb/G | 5.3 | 4.2 |
| Stls/G | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| TO/G | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| PPG | 17.1 | 19.1 |
So basically, Mason had a slightly better first half (despite being less efficient overall), then became an even more score-first PG while his other stats suffered. Again, People act like Walton was some albatros on this team to start the year; he was fine during the conference slate, but turned it around after that Illinois game and hasn't really looked back.
As a general rule, a sub-40% shooter shouldn't be on your first team all-conference. That basically means either "just a shooter" or "has no concept of shot selection."
counting stats is that they don't do justice to how superior Walton's rebound rates and scoring efficiency was compared to Mason. I will give Mason credit for really good Assist and TO rates in the conference. Walton's were close though, and his scoring efficiency and rebounding were so much better that he had to be the choice.
This is only okay because it's going to light an even bigger fire under his ass
LOL, MSU's Nick Ward got robbed by not being on the All Freshman team. Dude was 2nd in Big Ten freshman in scoring, 3rd in rebounding, 1st in FG%, and 2nd in blocks, all while winning B1G freshman of the week 4 times. Sparty is pissed, and probably deserves to be. Ward was arguably better than any freshman other than Bridges.
I heard Ward and Bridges interviewed tonight. They are statistically the best freshman combo MSU has EVER had. Ward seems like a good kid and a type of player I wish we had. Bridges was a very bad interview and probably needs to go to the NBA.
He's having a phenomenal year and his last game was probably his best ever. He's been really good for a while but lately hes been looking good as a pg, which hasn't really been the case for most of his career.
I think he has a future as an end of the bench guy in the nba.
Walton was the best PG in the conference by some margin. What a joke. I hope he puts the team on his back for the weekend and sticks it to everyone.