Chet is currently 8th in EPM, 12th in BBref’s BPM, 7th in win shares. What will it take for Chet to be an all-star in the west?
His scoring has been increasing recently. He’s been given more opportunities to put the ball on the floor, run the offense, create his own shot, and he’s been excelling doing that, by far the best rookie this year.
Being a starter in the west is out of the question. To be a reserve he can be selected out of 3 reserve spots and 2 wildcard spots. Last year the reserves were PG, Markannen, and Sabonis, with JJJ and Ja morant as the wildcards. Anthony Edwards and de’aaron Fox were later selected as replacements for zion and Steph, and replacements can be any position. Last year Booker, Kawhi, KAT, AD missed significant time in the beginning of the year.
Record is gonna be a big factor as always. A top 1 or two seed always has much higher odds of getting multiple all-star selection. Currently OKC is 2nd in the west and looking like they belong there.
Immediately we can likely knock out ja and JJJ from last years wild card spots with ja not playing, JJJ having an efficient season, and the grizzlies record likely being bad. The starters should be Steph, Luka, Lebron, KD, Jokic, tho I could see shai getting it over Luka this year. This pushes Zion as a reserve option.
Dame has left the west, lauri not as good as last year and the record will likely be too bad. The likely 3 front court spots would be KAT, AD, zion/ingram/PG. likely 2 backcourt spots are shai/Luka and Ant (if wolves retain 1st seed).
That leaves 2 wild card spots for Booker, who ever wasnt selected from zion/ingram/PG, maybe sabonis, and Chet.
For a start, he'd have to definitively be the no.2 on the Thunder. He's been that some games, but most games he's been the 3rd or 4th option, and hasn't clearly been the 2nd best player.