All Star selection is upon us, we're doing a little earlier this year, so we're not limited to dealing with the starters that everyone else selects.

We've got carte blanche this year. The criteria, of course, two guards, three front court, which is weird.

They, that was done a few years ago to eliminate the position of center because there's this idea that all the centers were bad.

And now center is one of the deepest positions in the NBA. So there are definitely different ways to do that.

But you know, we are going to go two guards and three front court and then with the reserves, I don't think we're going to run into any problems.

We'll probably just pick our seven best guys and go back and look and see if that conflicts with the strictures.

The coaches apparently I hadn't heard this, but according to Zacklow, they're told that basically you can kind of shoehorn guys into whatever position you want if you're struggling to get the guys on that you want.

So I think we'll use that as well. So do you want to talk any more about what your criteria are before we get started here?

One thing I'll say is this year I was a little bit more amenable to guys that are having good years, but don't necessarily have the track record of giving them an appearance.

I am much more rigid with all NBA because the idea that those are more heavily considered for all of fame and all that type of stuff.

But for, for an all star birth, I remember I had this one year with Goran Draugich.

So there are some guys on this that I think there are other players who are who are better basketball players, but because they're not having as good a year or something like that.

I wanted to reward, you know, my tiebreaker was who's having the better season, not who the better players.

Yeah, I think part of why you're having to embrace that is that the ends of the conference, even in the West, you're not getting guys that you really think of like, oh yeah, that guy's clearly an all star.

And certainly in the East, we've had that problem for quite some time here underdrow.

But it doesn't seem like quite as strong of a field in, you know, kind of the 25th through 30th best players in the NBA type of slot as it used to be where you either have established guys having done years or you've got some guys who are not as a

salish who are having really good years and you're forced to make a decision there.

My thinking on the overall criteria is evolved to some degree and especially comes in with regard to miss games, but also performance as well, but more so miss games.

For example, I'm going to have Lebron James starting over Paul George in my Western conference.

And you can say, oh man, Lebron, you know, he's been missed 15 games. I think it's that.

Well, I think it's kind of an accident that we have to make this decision and essentially the halfway mark of the season.

And but these all starbursts count for the entire season.

...