All-Centercourt honors the Top 60 seasons

 

The time has finally come where I ask area high school hoops fans for their opinion before giving mine.  Who has earned a spot on the 2017 All-Centercourt Team???  Give it shot. Five teams, with five players on each team, and another 35 players for honorable mention.

 

In a few weeks, the 10th Annual All-Centercourt Team will be announced, honoring the top 60 seasons turned in by WNY high school players this year.  The selections are broken down into a first, second, third, fourth, & fifth team, with five players on each, along with 35 honorable mention selections.  There is also an award for the CC MVP (the WNY Player of the Year), Coach of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, All-Centercourt Defenders, and the Centercourt #BOOM Squad.

 

The top 60 may sound like a lot, but when you start putting names down on paper, the list fills quickly and inevitably some very good players get left off the list.  The main criteria I focus on is the 2017 season, not what you did in the past, and not where you're going in the future…it's all about honoring the top 60 from this season.  

 

Use the comments section below to tell us what your 5 teams would look like and maybe even why.  If you're really ambitious, try coming up with the entire team including the HM selections.  

 

Please keep all commentary appropriate when discussing high school athletes, and remember, it is lame to say someone does not belong on a team, without offering up who should be on one.  It might be even more lame to give only one or two teams.  Show us you've paid attention this season and provide all five teams.

 

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155 responses to “Who has earned a spot on the 2017 All-Centercourt Team?”

  1. Scratching My Head Avatar
    Scratching My Head

    No disrespect intended & Many thanks to CC for the tremendous amount of time & effort that he donates to keep us informed about 716 Boys Basketball. However, until those selecting the areas elite teams, places a higher more appropriate value on winning in the both the sectionals & the MMA playoffs as a primary criteria for selection, the All WNY & All CC teams will continue to be viewed as popularity contest. It also promotes more “Me versus We/Team play. A first teamer from losing playoff teams in both C2 & MMA Class B speaks volumes for how week this year’s leagues were.

  2. Big Al Avatar
    Big Al

    Not one player on the All-Centercourt 1st Team won a championship this year, maybe the first time that’s ever happened. Only Grgreg Dolan even got his team to a title game. It would have been a disgrace to the first team if he only included players from championship teams. By your head scratching logic, 1st Team would have been…
    Jayce Johnson, Trevor Book, Christian Szablewski, Davonte Gaines, and Tazaun Rose
    Five nice players, but not 1st teamers.

  3. Scratching My Head Avatar
    Scratching My Head

    And the conversation goes… “We” didn’t win…but “I” made 1st Team All WNY. You play to WIN the games. I played college ball with a guy who made All American in a season that we lost a chance to win a National Title. To this day, 30 years later, he will tell you that he would still trade that individual award for a “Team” award.. Jayce lead a depleted perennial power house to a local title & shot at a State title. Likewise Devante lead a Charter school, which are often considered lacking in WNY, to a local title and a shot at a state title. Sounds like 1st Team efforts to me. All I’m saying is the awards 1st thru 4th teams should be about the season at hand not the players career accomplishments and potential. Great conversation.

  4. russelwest Avatar
    russelwest

    Scratching – agreed, all about the individual. solid young men who get it are the ones who play as a team. A lot of individuals on center court list. Too bad! NT – no superstars just played great team ball. Could not even come up with more than one kid for 1st through 4th team…. hmmmm. what does that tell ya. Same with Canisius team. These teams proved individual awards are not what its about. Three Park kids on the team though…..

  5. Adam Avatar
    Adam

    Aren’t individual awards for “individuals”? Based upon what that individual has done during their season – individually, right? Individual awards aren’t based on what their team has done. Having a championship season certainly helps one achieve individual awards, but having a championship season isn’t required to be deserving of individual awards. The NBA’s MVP isn’t going to be a champion this year, and he shouldn’t have to be in order to get the MVP award. It’s an individual award, not a team award! The All Centercourt teams, and the All WNY teams are individual awards, that conglomerately form “teams”. They aren’t team awards though.
    And for all of you Bills fans, the SuperBowl Champion New England Patriots only had 4 players selected to the Pro Bowl in 2017……

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