Your Awardees for London 2012

[greenarcher]

First 5

Pau Gasol
Luis Scola
Linas Kleiza
Manu Ginobili
Tony Parker

Second 5

Timofey Mozgov
Andrei Kirilenko
Lebron James
Nicolas Batum
Patty Mills

Third 5

Tiago Splitter
Yi Jianlian
Luol Deng
Kevin Durant
Leandro Barbosa

MVP

Pau Gasol

[Pleasant]

It seemed premature to comment on this the first time you posted it, but I wonder if you would change your team now that everything's been said and done?

Here's my (obviously biased ) take. Forgive some position shifting:

MVP:
LeBron James... but still, Kevin Durant... :\

First Team All-Olympics:
C: Pau Gasol
PF: LeBron James
SF: Kevin Durant
SG: Manu Ginobili
PG: Tony Parker

Second Team All-Olympics:
C: Luis Scola
PF: Marc Gasol
SF: Andrei Kirilenko
SG: Alexey Shved
PG: Patty Mills

Third Team All-Olympics:
C: Kevin Love
PF: Linas Kleiza
SF: Luol Deng
SG: Nicholas Batum
PG: Leandro Barbosa

Tough Omissions:
- Vitaliy Fridzon: cool in the clutch against Brazil and Spain, but hard to find someone to take off the list
- JC Navarro: brilliant first half of the gold medal game would have redeemed his lackluster early tournament and gotten him on if Spain had won the game
- Marcelinho Huertas: almost a toss-up between him and Barbosa for me, but Barbosa seemed (in my memory) to be less streaky
- Yi Jianlian: statistically a beast, but for a team that got crushed every game; would have put him instead of Love

I see there's a lack of attention to non-NBAers here, but I wonder if that's legitimate or if it's just my background/bias showing. I'd be interested in seeing others' opinions

[Shawshank]

top5 player should be from top4 team,so mentione all leaders of those teams.

Gasol,James,Durant,Kirilenko,Ginobili

MVP Durant

and oscar for best acting display goes to Rudy Fernandez

[DarkoMVP]

PPG, RPG, APG, 2PT%, 3PT%

First Team All-Olympics:
C: Pau Gasol (19.1, 7.6,, 2.9, 62%, 31%)
PF: Luis Scola (18.0, 4.6, 2.8, 54%, 0%)
SF: Kevin Durant (19.5, 5.8, 2.6, 42%, 52%)
SG: Manu Ginobili (19.4, 5.4 4.1, 53%, 44%)
PG: LeBron James (13.2, 5.6, 5.6, 72%, 30%)

Second Team All-Olympics:
C: Marc Gasol (12.6, 4.8, 2.1, 52%, 50%)
PF: Carmelo Anthony (16.2, 4.8, 1.2, 58%, 50%)
SF: Andrei Kirilenko (17.5, 7.5, 1.4, 62%, 26%) + 1.9 spg, 1.8bpg
SG: Nicolas Batum (15.5, 5.7, 1.2, 72%, 36%)
PG: Patty Mills (21.2, 4.5, 2.2, 47%, 35%)

Third Team All-Olympics:
C: Kevin Love (11.6, 7.6, 0.4, 81%, 36%)
PF: Linas Kleiza (13.8, 6.3, 1.7, 51%, 20%)
SF: Joe Ingles (15.0, 5.0, 4.2, 63%, 31%)
SG: Carlos Delfino (15.2, 3.8, 1.6, 63%, 35%)
PG: Leandro Barbosa (16.2, 2.2, 0.3, 54%, 40%)

HM:
Ben Romdhane (15.0, 8.6, 2.6, 52%, 13%) + 2 spg, team was competitive with much more talented teams.
Yi: (14.8, 10.2, 0.8, 42%, 67%) + 2 bpg team performed atrociously
Diogu: (14.9, 9.0, 0.6, 48%, 30%) - poor team performance
Freeland (14.6 6.6, 0.4, 52%, 29%) - solid stats, shone in best game vs. Spain

Omitted:
Shved: Terrible in 4 out of last 5 games - hurt his team
Tony Parker: Inefficient scorer, didn't give much else, sad to say.
Deng: Less production on worse efficiency than Ingles on a worse team, disappeared in meaningful games.

[Pleasant]

PG: LeBron James (13.2, 5.6, 5.6, 72%, 30%)

Interesting position for him, and certainly not something I can say is wrong. I wish I'd thought of this instead. I wish Krzyzewski had thought of it more often, too

Omitted:
Shved: Terrible in 4 out of last 5 games - hurt his team

Fair enough about Shved, but I give extra points for big performances in meaningful games. Without him, would Russia have gotten bronze? THen again, maybe a better showing against Spain could have had them in contention for gold/silver instead.

[VIRIATO]

From what I've seen I would not forget Chris Paul. I believe he was clutch at some important games, including the gold medal game, and I really liked his quality and toughness. The toughness/experience part to me was there for all to see when he was hard fouled by the Spanish players a couple of times.
So IMHO:

C: Pau Gasol
PF: LeBron James
SF: Kevin Durant
SG: Manu Ginobili
PG: Chris Paul


MVP: Kevin Durant
Cheers,
Paulo

[VIRIATO]

Kevin Durant (30 decisive points at the gold medal match) to me deserves a special mention. His talent, his seemingly effortless elegant talent looks unlimited. If you foul him like Spain did, he'll go to the line and make you pay, he sinks free throws like he is having a cup of tea... He runs, he defends, he dunks and hits treys, he is the real deal. I really like the joy he puts into his game. Watch him play for the US. See his joy on the stand when receiving the gold medal and listening to the USA national anthem. Feel the positive feelings and vibrations coming out of this man. He has fun playing and dealing with the pressure to do more. He shrugs off all negativity and reacts maturely and positively to excessive agressiveness and fouling: he just plays better, he outplays you. This 23 year old World and Olympic basketball champion will become the best player in the world. And he looks like a great likeable personality. I want to follow his career for many years.
Sorry if this is too long but, as they say, I LOVE THIS GAME!

Paulo