Comments on: NBA Awards

By: Pennycook

Pennycook — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:52:52 +0000

Darrick Martin… went from a bench scrub to positioning himself for a lengthy coaching career (if that isn’t worthy of a 5th place MIP vote I don’t know what is).

Garnett did deserve the D-award but I don’t think he is worthy of the MVP this season. Boston definitely would have been able to get to .500 with Ray-Ray, Pierce and Al Jefferson and made the playoffs.

By: Blake Murphy

Blake Murphy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:27:39 +0000

Horford was sick, yes he was. However, wins have NOTHING to do with the ROY race. It is not ‘most valuable rookie’ or ‘rookie with the best situation.’ It is the rookie who has performed the best, and on that metric Durant blew everyone else away.

Ya, Seattle dropped 11 games, you’re right. Care to consider that they lost Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis in the offseason?

Jesus Christ, Durant is the absolute-without-doubt-no-fucking-argument rookie of the year.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:03:20 +0000

I don’t necessairly “vote” or “decide things” but if I did…

What is so impressive with 9.2 RPG, 1.41 SPG, and 1.25 BPG? The win total? Really, if you have that lineup and you don’t accumulate similar numbers you might have some sort of disability….The fact that Shawn Marion has career averages of 10.1 RPG, 1.9 SPG and 1.3 BPG and has yet to be on an all NBA-Defensive team….

Similarly, even though I don’t want to defend the apparent lone ROY voting outcast…Al Horford had a nice 10.1 PPG and 9.7 RPG, with 37 wins and a playoff spot.

Horford’s 9.7 RPG put him, according to ESPN.com, as 13th on the rebounding list, while his .94 BPG ranked him 39th. Horford, while not a prolific scorer, was apparently the 106th best scorer in the league…not really sure what it means, but not bad, I think…

Based on points, Durant had a great season! 20.3 PPG is almost unheard of for a rookie! But it did put him 24th for the season. And his 0.94 BPG were good for 40th. Durant’s 4.4 RPG placed him securely as the 98th best rebounder…

Atlanta won 30 games in 06-07 and 37 in 07-08

Seattle won 31 in 06-07 and won 20 in 07-08….

I realize everything was “anonymous” but if anonymous choices are going to be questioned, I might as well defend the “undefendable” to an extent…

By: Stu P S

Stu P S — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:20:45 +0000

Darick Martin for coach of the year next year…He’s the next Scott Skiles.

I can’t believe KG didn’t get Defensive POY. You guys are a bunch of jokes.

By: Blake Murphy

Blake Murphy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:13:34 +0000

I think the Mitchell vote was a joke. I want to believe that, anyways, since a few other votes were clearly jokes (Devean George for MVP, Darrick Martin most improved)…no wait, Mitchell got a 3rd place vote. Shit, wish I didn’t commit to this being confidential. That is bad, but not as bad as KG not getting Defensive POY or Horford getting a 1st place vote.

By: TSmith

TSmith — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:39:24 +0000

I am boycotting any award voting in which my other panelists give Sam “I couldn’t coach why way out of brown paper bag” Mitchell a vote for Coach of the Year.

WHAT A JOKE! I think it has to be a rule that you actually watch AND understand basketball before you are allowed to vote next year. Jesus, fellas…

Also, Kobe IS the MVP, period.

By: Blake Murphy

Blake Murphy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:17:39 +0000

I didn’t include this because it’s so freakin’ obvious it hurts, but:
All-NBA First Team
C – Dwight Howard
PF – Kevin Garnett
SF – LeBron James
SG – Kobe Bryant
PG – Chris Paul

By: alex

alex — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:44:55 +0000

Blake good call on Garnett leading a great defensive but you know as well as I it comes down to numbers and Camby is bringin it home fo sure