Beasley over EJ for All-Rookie Team?!

don’t matter for the all-rookie team. The coaches are instructed to pick the top 5 rookies, regardless of position.
This is utterly ridiculous that Beasley is first team and EJ or even Kevin Love were not.

wow..maybe beasley has a future…but ej is great right now. one of the top 3 rookies. he should have been there… i watch beasley and see someone who is scared to shoot and the team does not trust him to make his shots.

Beasley has kind of disappointed me. I thought that he would have had a stronger showing this season (I had him as most likely ROY heading into the season). I understand that Spoelstra reduced his minutes, and that hurt his overall numbers. The thing is the All-Rookie team should not be based off of per-36 minute stats. MVP or DPOY are not based off of that, but what is actually shown on the court. Gordon did more on the court than Beasley did all season. Gordon also had a coach that barely played him when the season began. It wasn’t until Mobley was traded and Davis was hurt that Gordon really got the opportunity to get on the job training. Gordon has shown his worth and has pretty much outplayed all other rookies in the 2009 regular season games. The only thing he had going against him is that he was on this dysfunctional team.

I agree that Beasley is a talented player, and I think that he will be a force to be reckoned with down the line. He’s not there yet though. He’s also not at Gordon’s level as a player yet. In one of those less than 20 minute games, he shot 1 for 9 from the field. He has shot 35% from the field in this series against the Hawks. 68 points on 76 shots. That’s not efficient. Beasley plays less minutes than a lot of the other key Heat players, but he also attempts more shots than them. During the season he played over 600 less minutes than Gordon and still managed to put up more attempts.

That’s the part of his game that really irks me right now. Most people walked away from the Rookie Challenge, noticing that he’s a selfish player right now. Hopefully he grows out of that. Here’s a quote from Draft Express’ Rookie Retrospective:

“The selfishness we documented in Beasley’s high school and college performances has translated itself in some situations because of the increase in isolation plays created by the shorter shot clock. Ball movement still stops once it reaches his hands, and he rarely looks to make the extra pass to open shooters. If he wants to become a more prominent NBA player and warrant more help defensively, Beasley will need to become a more efficient team player and look for help from his teammates in half court sets. "

Riley and Spoelstra are trying to help mold him and make him a better player in the long run, but there is a reason he was coming off the bench and getting the limited minutes that he was getting. It’s not only because he is a rookie (Chalmers started every game), and I’m sure some of the other rookie bigs (Lopez, Love, Thompson, etc.) would have been granted a few more minutes on this Heat team.