The 2019 PBA All-Star Snubs: Wings and Bigs Edition!

(c) PBA Media Bureau

The 2019 PBA All-Star weekend is less than three weeks away! The line-up was already announced.

The South team is composed of June Mar Fajardo, Greg Slaughter, James Yap, Mark Barroca, Scottie Thompson, Terrence Romeo, RR Pogoy, Chris Ross, Baser Amer, PJ Simon, Jio Jalalon, John Paul Erram, and Joe Devance.

On the other hand, Calvin Abueva, Japeth Aguilar, Paul Lee, LA Tenorio, Marcio Lassiter, Jayson Castro, Stanley Pringle, Alex Cabagnot, Gabe Norwood, Arwind Santos, Troy Rosario, Marc Pingris, and Chris Banchero will represent North team.

We already named the guards who were snubbed from the All-Star game. It is time to name the wings and bigs that also deserved one of the 24 spots.

Chris Newsome
Newsome is the type of wing who will fill up the stat sheet quietly. Just like this year again where he is currently averaging 16.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 1.5 steals and 48% FG per game. Only he and Sean Anthony are producing more than 15 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game. Unfortunately, they cannot win enough games for him to get any attention.

Moala Tautuaa
Moala Tautuaa is silently having a breakout conference. Mo is manufacturing 19.9 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 62% FG per game. He is the most efficient scorer in the league (minimum of 5 attempts per game) and the fifth-best in terms of points per game. He is also the eighth-best in terms of rebounds per game. And that is still not enough? How come?

Christian Standhardinger
How did the voters miss-out the player who played like an import in the 2018 PBA Commissioner's Cup? It is not as if his playing-style is boring. He is a bowling ball when he attacks the rim, hitting anyone and anywhere in his way. Maybe, they just do not want it to look like an SMC All-Star game?

Sean Anthony
I think this is already the 3rd straight All-Star game that voters disrespected the production of Sean. How can you even come up with a viable reason why a player who is currently averaging 21.3 points (3rd best), 8.6 rebounds (9th best), 4.3 assists (14th best) and 2.4 steals (3rd best) per game. 

He is doing it on both ends of the court, can do almost everything on the court and yet undeserving of one of those 24 spots? Why? How?