2018 NBA Awards Predix & MVPoll

draymond the gm is in full recruiting mode
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MVP - harden
DPOY - gobert? horford?
ROY - mitchell
6MOY - lou
MIP - dipo
COY - brother brad

i pretty much agree with the above but have no idea how DPOY shakes out and figure d'antoni has a shot at COY

or yeah casey forgot about casey

this is the ballot im sending in as a voting member of the press

mvp - kawhi leonard
dpoy - deangelo russell
roy - lonzo ball
6moy - devin harris
mip - lonzo ball (first rookie to ever win roy and mip)
coy - erik spoelstra

Very accurate but not enough spurs tbf

casey should be coy

MVP - harden will take it tho i find his flopping ahorrent and would happily vote elsewhere

DPOY - gobert, i think 50 games is enough
ROY - mitchell (i hope)
6MOY - lou
MIP - dipo
COY - casey, though he will be exposed again in the playoffs

Kinda hearing some mcmillan talk for coy, not like he should be #1 but may be worth a few top 3 votes. He’s def surprised me.

yeah he changed his style along with the times, impressive for sure

i think the pacers team talent is being used about as well as you could hope for yeah

I voted Harden MVP. He's been a bridesmaid several times now and set himself up to win this time. Brow ought to pick up a few votes from Harden haters. LeBron will get his votes from his devotees, but... (shrug) nah.

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seems pretty conclusive

hah

nobody mentioned my DPOY pick, a fella named Kevin

durant? (mentioned by me upthread if so)

wow the hivemind truly rules ilh

oh yes there it is

i feel that he's been better than draymond by quite a bit

he was for a while but they kinda reversed about halfway through imo. KD been a little more lax and dray's turned it up.

MVP - LaMarcus Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard (tie 1st)
DPOY - Kyle Anderson
6th - Manu Ginobili
COY - Gregg Popovich
MIP - Dejounte Murray
ROY - Derrick White

kyle anderson is a steals maniac, good shot blocker too. wonder what kind of defensive numbers he would put up if he played starter minutes.

kyle has started 54 of the 60 games he's played fyi

didnt realize he was playing 27 minutes a game this season. cool

well, when kawhi and rudy have both been out, their SF slot has been pretty thin. he even occasionally starts at PF with 3 Gs

a guy who should get 6MOY votes but might not: nick vanvleet

was thinking today about how guys like macmillan and scotty brooks don't get the COY buzz mainly because of their bad reputations lol

lol fred* vanvleet

Franks been awesome

van vleet should be in the 6man running altho i don't think he has the raw stats for it. he plays in crunch time for the 3rd best team in the league and that should count.

dpoy

Draymond Green. Defense. Good. pic.twitter.com/GOD4bNqjU2

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) March 17, 2018

James Harden doesn’t want any DNP-rest nights down the stretch of the regular season. “I’m good, I wanna play,” Harden said.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) March 23, 2018

fwiw harden is known for wanting to play

also known for whining about not winning mvp

yeah i mean im not saying he doesnt want it

just think maybe he should be focused on not breaking down in the playoffs again.

wld be wise for sure

not like he cldnt take a game or two off and still win it too

they've got a pretty easy schedule it would be dumb not to sit him against some of those teams

also got home court wrapped m/l

https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/mvp.html

interesting that the MVP tracker tool on bkref has cp3 and steph 2 and 3 despite all the time they've missed

stephs advanced numbers this year were on par with his unanimous mvp year. dude is shooting nearly 60% from 2p

DPOY and all defense thoughts from pelton:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23032582/2018-nba-all-defense-defensive-player-year-best-picks-position

awww i hope dejounte gets chosen!

wow al horford right behind dray there huh and he can play center for a whole game if he feels like it and shoots 15% better from three

still scared of rebounds tho

keep in mind we are comparing him to dray here

wow al horford right behind dray there huh and he can play center for a whole game if he feels like it and shoots 15% better from three

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 5, 2018 8:36 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago)

shooting 3s not really considered part of defense iirc

its part of basketball tho

just a thought but what if the best defense is good offense?

mitchell def has the potential to be a star, tho tbh simmons is already there and his ceiling seems to be MVP candidate and in the not too distant future, anyway the discussion is about this year and simmons is the better player

creating shots is the single most valuable nba skill u need to put those old musty nerd opinions in storage

I agree it's important but being better at it does not mean the player is necessarily better, hence my point about weighting and how we are bad at it

hitting home runs is the best thing a baseball player can do but it does not necessarily mean that the guy who hits the most home runs is the best player or even the best hitter, makes u think

none of this is to say mitchell hasn't had a sick year, he has, but simmons is way better and we should give the award to the better dude imo

i agree that hes been better and will prob win but i think mitchell has been great and also i think simmons shd be disqualified for redshirting

this breakdown of defensive positional guarding percentages is super cool: https://public.tableau.com/profile/knarsu3#!/vizhome/DefensivePositions/Dashboard1

Check out Ben Simmons

ha yeah pretty evenly distributed as you might expect

lowe's opinions
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23107445/zach-lowe-2017-18-picks-nba-mvp-defensive-player-year-rookie-year-more-awards

hard to argue with any of those picks, tho I’m agnostic on coach of the year

I’m more and more convinced that an MVP vote for lebron is basically indefensible.

lowe’s love of raw plus-minus stats but not adjusted plus-minus stats bugs me tho lol

i'm disinclined to reward any of the coaches that ended up in the 3-8 western conference mess with a CoY vote.

I just don’t think we know enough about coaching value and voting on it is silly

Golliver's pov
https://www.si.com/nba/2018/04/11/2017-18-nba-awards-cavaliers-rockets-lebron-james-harden-ben-simmons

most of these awards are dumb but COY seems the dumbest behind MIP

My defense of a lebron vote would be solely that he is still great and it would be a make up award for some previous years

I wouldn’t actually vote for him though with harden existing this year

Having to completely remake lebrons custom built team around him midstream is also a serious strike against any real mvp candidacy too as lowe goes into extensively

he was prob the worst defender in the league this year

Aw cmon that’s not true

He was the worst defender in the league for like six weeks tops

i understand conserving yr energy but i feel like he cldve balanced it a lil better between offense and defense

he def wasn't the worst, he's about average over 82 games a this point probably tho def very good when he dials it in

dialed it in for prob 10mins this season the rest he took off he was really exceptionally bad, its not a coincidence the cavs were also insanely bad

yeah we are in general agreement that his defense is not great overall

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/sports/nba-dwane-casey-raptors-coach-of-the-year.html

In a vote of his peers, Dwane Casey of the Toronto Raptors has been selected as the National Basketball Coaches Association’s coach of the year for the 2017-18 season — while Brad Stevens of the Boston Celtics stunningly failed to win a single vote from fellow coaches.

Perfect timing

lol i knew it

oh wait thats the peer award still i think the real one will have the same outcome

very weird

2018 NBA All-Defensive teams:

First team: Rudy Gobert, Anthony Davis, Victor Oladipo, Jrue Holiday, Robert Covington.

Second team: Joel Embiid, Draymond Green, Al Horford, Dejounte Murray, Jimmy Butler.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 23, 2018

huh, dipo?

heard rumblings of his defense being amazing this year. covington over draymond seems a little suspect to me. but fair enough, he deserves a lot of credit and dray was cruising at 80% all year.

almost surprised roberson didn't make it even tho he only played 35 games or so

dejounte!!!

al shdve been first team

ALL NBA
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Lillard first team O__o

these, wld not be my lists lol

mine wld just be 15 marcus smarts

On the bright side, we don’t have to hear about Dame not getting any respect ever again.

— A.K ⚖️ (@Kungu_NBA) May 24, 2018

don't understand how KAT could make it after the year he's had.

who's out here voting for TREVOR ARIZA for all-nba?