All-Star snub Darius Garland more deserving than these three

No. 1 All-Star that shouldn’t have made team: Tyrese Haliburton, G, Indiana Pacers

This selection to take Tyrese Haliburton might be the toughest argument to make in favor of Darius Garland because Haliburton has an excellent all-around game like Garland. He’s averaging a double-double in terms of points and assists this season as he’s going for 20 points along with 10 assists per game. That scoring average is his best yet in his young NBA career.

Haliburton has collected 23 double-doubles between points and assists in only 41 games, while Garland has collected 15 of those games. While Haliburton has collected a winning record while he’s played, he’s missed 11 games this season and because of that his team is struggling with a 24-29 record and trying to stay close to the competition in the Eastern Conference.

The fact that the Cavs are in the playoff picture, ranked as the No. 5 seed right now and the Pacers are floundering toward the bottom of the pack, is one of the main reasons Garland should have made the All-Star Game instead of Haliburton.

Garland definitely has the statistical numbers to be in the big NBA showcase game instead of DeMar DeRozan and Jrue Holiday and that’s too bad that the coaches around the league didn’t consider that more in their selections. And beyond that, to not recognize that Garland is a rising star and that he made the All-Star team as a reserve a year ago is disappointing.

I believe part of the dilemma for the coaches too was that DeRozan was named a starter in the game a year ago along with Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks.

The selections of Donovan Mitchell and Kyrie Irving this year as East starters made the decisions with the reserves very tricky in a deep pack of guard players that are deserving in their own rights.