And while we're at it, let's revisit that which was so wildly successful last winter, and generated more conversation than anything else we've ever done ...
Remember the Basketball Best Fives of the Last 25 Years? Well, we're going to do it again, only this time add the graduates of the Class of 2008 and the stars of the current 2008-09 season into the mix.
They say that a player's statistics don't change after he or she graduates. Still, perspectives, context, landscape and demographics do.
Somebody new to SportsBlog Nation might conjure up a player's name whom nobody thought of last January. A player's current performance might push a charter member of last winter's list off of it. You just don't know.
Anyway, let's give it a whirl again. Be true to your school, but don't by shy about nominating a player from another school. This is open to DODDS and international-school teams.
I'll post last year's lists in separate blog entries, so SportsBlog Nation has a framework to play with.
Sound off! Shout it out! Let me know who should be this winter's kings and queens of the hardwood! :)
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Try the Albert Schweitzer kid from Ramstein.
Schuck.
He's only improved this year as well.
He was not even all-conference his sophmore year because of kobe byrant like seniors, but now is likely the best player in DoDDs. Period. The best that I know of at least.
Best Fives SFS
George Rudolph (class of 2007), currently playing club ball at Princeton, was not the fastest or the tallest, but he was almost always the fastest thinker on the court and instinctively found the open shot or open player. He led an above average SFS squad to back-to-back APAC championships against heavily favored Shanghai American. For the first time in recent history the tandem of Rudolph and Kearney gave Seoul American a run, and tied them for the league championship.
Seoul American HS
Should read JAKE ABRAMOWITZ, not David. David is his dad. :)
Jake is playing Team Handball at West Point these days and the team has 3 national championships to their credit. Hoping for a 4-peat this spring.
GO ARMY!