Bradley's All Decade Team, 2000-2010

[tornado]

Since technically the decade ended last night at midnight, I will start the thread where any Bradley fan can post their opinion of the All Decade Team for the first decade of the 21st century..
I have also posted my All-Decade-Opponent Team..
(Any player in the interval of 2000-2001 thru current is considered -
thus players such as Rob Dye or Aba Koita, whose careers ended in 1999-2000 are not considered)

Bradley's All Decade Teams

1st Team
Phillip Gilbert - 1689 career points
Marcellus Sommerville - 1493 career points
Patrick O'Bryant - averaged 12 ppg, 8 rpg over two seasons at BU
Andrew Warren - 1245 career points and counting
tie - Daniel Ruffin (1280 career pts) &
.......Jeremy Crouch (1306 career pts)

2nd Team
James Gillingham - 1416 career points
Jerome Robinson - 864 career points
Lawrence "Boogie" Wright - 606 career points
Will Franklin - 646 career pts in just two years at BU
Sam Maniscalco - career currently on hold and may move to 1st Team eventually!

3rd Team
JJ Tauai - 453 career pts, plus lots of intangibles
Tony Bennett - 679 career points in only two years but gutsy play
Zach Andrews - 560 career points, 399 career rebounds
Theron Wilson - 938 career points in just 2 years at BU
tie -- Chris Roberts - 597 career points and one spectacular 70-foot shot!
........Marcello Robinson - tough, gritty, over 700 career pts, and an all-around great guy


Honorable Mention
Danny Granger - time to mend fences and consider him one of Bradley's best,
Danny Adams - gutted out five years as a Brave, toiling thru injuries and paying his own way much of the time, then contributing in a key way as the glue and energy that helped BU to the Sweet Sixteen!
Brandyn Heemskerk - great guy who made everyone else better
Dodie Dunson - would be far higher on the list had he played his full career here
Taylor Brown - a truly spectacular athlete whose career might yet boost him higher on this list

All Decade Opponent Team
Kyle Korver
Nate Funk
Osiris Eldridge
Adam Emmenecker
Tarise Bryson
Blake Ahearn
Ben Jacobson
Kent Williams
Darren Brooks
Jamaal Tatum

[LittleBrave]

I can't disagree with you much about the 1st, 2nd, 3rd teams.
Had SM been healthy and performing well this season, I'd have to consider
him 1st team - probably ahead of D-Ruff. But since DR went to the Sweet 16, can't take him off of 1st team. But AW belongs on 2nd team IMO. Had a nice sophomore season, with a great senior season so far. But his other 2 seasons were not great - not to knock him, but he didn't stand out.
SM has been consistent every season and the heart-and-soul of the Braves in '08-'09 and '09-'10.

Will be thinking about the all decade opponent team. I'm not gonna' put Funk on the list - thought he was way overrated in his career, though he did have a fine senior season.

[electricmayhem]

Nice work, T - but there is no way Emmenecker belongs anywhere near the top-10 on the All-MVC team. A few I would have in front of him:

1. Josh Young - #4 scorer in the MVC in the last decade
2. Robbie Sieverding - 16.4 ppg in three seasons
3. Grant Stout - rebounding monster
4. Eric Coleman - see #3
5. Bryan Mullins - good distributor, great defender

[Da Coach]

UNI's Robbie Sieverding only played 1 full season in this decade. He would seem to belong to the previous decade.

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/northern-iowa/robbie-sieverding

BTW- he is in his 4th season as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Dubuque-

http://www.dbq.edu/udathletics/basketball.cfm

[tornado]

electric -- the reason I have Emmenecker is because no player in the decade did so much with one single year and carry a team the way he carried Drake his senior season in 2007-2008.
And if you were there, you know how he singlehandedly beat us that year...
If I had to build a team from that decade's opponent players, he's the guy I'd pick to play PG for me.

[electricmayhem]

electric -- the reason I have Emmenecker is because no player in the decade did so much with one single year and carry a team the way he carried Drake his senior season in 2007-2008.
And if you were there, you know how he singlehandedly beat us that year...
If I had to build a team from that decade's opponent players, he's the guy I'd pick to play PG for me.

Ok - that's fair. If you are picking a player for one season or one game, I don't have a big problem with AE. For a career, I'll take Mullins or some of the others mentioned.

That would be an interesting thread -- naming your all-opponent starting lineup for the decade.

[SFP]

electric -- the reason I have Emmenecker is because no player in the decade did so much with one single year and carry a team the way he carried Drake his senior season in 2007-2008.
And if you were there, you know how he singlehandedly beat us that year...
If I had to build a team from that decade's opponent players, he's the guy I'd pick to play PG for me.

I agree T plus the guy can show you what hard work can do. He should be an inspiration for a lot of thought of marginal players. He's definitely one of my favorite Valley players for that fact college. There are also some things a player brings that you do not see on the stat sheet. Boogie and JJ fall under that category.