{"id":148,"date":"2008-04-01T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2008-04-01T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T19:02:45","slug":"cimorellis-question-of-the-day-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Cimorelli&#8217;s Question of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Which of the Final Four teams will have:\u00a0 (a) the most NBA players, (b) the most NBA starters, and (c) the most NBA all-stars?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My thoughts (tell me if you agree or not)<\/p>\n<p><u>ALL-STARS<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Derrick Rose (not a sure thing, but incredible upside)<\/li>\n<li>anyone else would surprise me (though I think Love or Arthur have the best chance of the others, I just don\u2019t see all-star)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>CONSISTENT STARTERS<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Love<\/li>\n<li>Arthur<\/li>\n<li>Lawson (will have to improve defensively\u2013which I think he will)<\/li>\n<li>Westbrook (I don\u2019t totally see it, but the scouts apparently are drooling over him)<\/li>\n<li>Collison (I think he\u2019s a slightly better pro prospect than Chalmers)<\/li>\n<li>Ellington (a tough call, but I think he\u2019ll be good enough to start in the NBA eventually)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>DECENT CAREERS, NEVER CONSISTENT STARTERS<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Douglas-Roberts (this is the toughest call\u2013I LOVE his game, but what at position can he start in the NBA?)<\/li>\n<li>Rush (does he have the heart to be a star?)<\/li>\n<li>Hansborough (I think he\u2019ll have a terrific career as a 3rd or 4th big man on a really good team)<\/li>\n<li>Dorsey (if he develops a work ethic, he might play for 12 years in the pros, but probably off the bench)<\/li>\n<li>Chalmers (though I wouldn\u2019t be terribly surprised if he ends up starting somewhere)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>CUP OF COFFEE<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sherron Collins (probably an NBA player, but if Adonis Jordan didn\u2019t make it, who knows?)<\/li>\n<li>Deon Thompson (size)<\/li>\n<li>Darnell Jackson (size)<\/li>\n<li>Josh Shipp<\/li>\n<li>Russell Robinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, my final count (to answer the question) of NBA players:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 for Kansas\u20131 starter, 2 good backups, 2 potential end-of-the-bench guys3 for Memphis\u20131 all-star, 2 good NBA backups<\/li>\n<li>4 for UCLA\u20133 consistent starters, 1 end-of-the-bench guy<\/li>\n<li>4 for UNC\u20132 starters, 1 good backup, 1 end-of-the-bench guy<\/li>\n<li>3 for Memphis&#8211;1 all-star, 2 really good backups\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, this is going to be an INCREDIBLE Final Four!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the Final Four teams will have:\u00a0 (a) the most NBA players, (b) the most NBA starters, and (c) the most NBA all-stars? My thoughts (tell me if you agree or not) ALL-STARS: Derrick Rose (not a sure thing, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-hoops","category-questions-of-the-day","tag-2008-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}