Howard Beck

um norm over bam if it's a miami guy derrick white who you named raja i i gave serious consideration to i just couldn't do with cat with the way the knicks have gone and it's like recency bias fine his numbers are all-star worthy in the abstract but the way cats played the last several weeks just hard to get there you know it that was the hardest thing for me i ended up putting him on because the last time i actually saw me at a great game even though they lost um

Yeah, I think all-star games, you know, it's an individual achievement more than anything.

If your team is winning, all the better.

And we have these discussions, right?

Well, oh, are the Pistons good enough to have two guys?

Are the Celtics good enough to have two?

Like, we do those things, right?

We have those kinds of conversations.

So the team record does matter on some level, but it's an individual achievement, all-star.

The game itself, to the extent that it is supposed to be entertainment, which some years, not so much –

you do want guys in there who individually are great and fun to watch.

That's why often it leans offense over defense too, right?

Where it's like, has Rudy Gobert made a couple of all-star teams?

Like, sure.

Do people really care about seeing like a great defender in an all-star game?

No.

No, they don't even play defense in all-star games.

Right, but even the offense-first guys all have the ability to at least try to play defense in an all-star game.

They just choose not to.

I'm sure people don't have any strong opinions.