CP3's MVP Campaign

[TheNewEra]

Paul has to stay consistent with his play. He only really started to pick it up in a huge way since the Wizards game.

[Verballer]

Paul has to stay consistent with his play. He only really started to pick it up in a huge way since the Wizards game.

He is playing inconsistently but even the "meh" games are better than last season,which besides during the playoffs,he was terrible.
This season he will average around 20/12/4 which is certainly an MVP statline. This will be the season it'll be a toss up between Durant or Paul,depending on which team has more wins and if they are only separated by 1 or 2 wins then individual stats.

[Ranma]

Dug this thread out of mothballs since I think the following piece fits here best and it's also nice to look back in retrospect. Also, I just noticed that DeAndre Jordan was fourth in the Wins-Produced-Per-48 category, ahead of Durant.

Reuben Fischer-Baum, Deadspin (4/21/14)

These stats are not without their weaknesses, and I wouldn't point to any of them to individually argue for any player. Taken together, though, they tell you two things: 1) If you make a new stat—and that stat involves even a slightly non-traditional definition of what it means to be "good"—there's a decent chance you'll find Chris Paul's name somewhere near the top of the list; 2) Paul deserves to be at least somewhere in the best-player conversation, if only because he makes you wonder what the use is of having the conversation in the first place.

...The best player is surely versatile and unselfish, but what separates him from the rest is his ability to score, to turn his team's offense into an expression of his will. Close your eyes and think of this kind of player. Chances are you're imagining someone who looks a lot more like Michael Jordan than he does Chris Paul.

That's because Paul, a point guard, doesn't really play hero ball. (He can when needed: With the Clippers down 97-86 with seven minutes to play in their playoff opener against the Warriors, Paul scored 10 of Los Angeles's next 16 points to tie the game at 102.) He's never scored more than 43 points in a game—LeBron and Durant have pulled off the feat a combined 46 times—or more than 35 points in a playoff game, which Durant and LeBron have managed 31 times. Paul can't easily be extricated from a team context, since what he does best of all—and perhaps as well as anyone ever to play the position—is initiate an effective interaction with a teammate.

Is Chris Paul Somehow Underrated?

[Verballer]

Dug this thread out of mothballs since I think the following piece fits here best and it's also nice to look back in retrospect. Also, I just noticed that DeAndre Jordan was fourth in the Wins-Produced-Per-48 category, ahead of Durant.

Reuben Fischer-Baum, Deadspin (4/21/14)

These stats are not without their weaknesses, and I wouldn't point to any of them to individually argue for any player. Taken together, though, they tell you two things: 1) If you make a new stat—and that stat involves even a slightly non-traditional definition of what it means to be "good"—there's a decent chance you'll find Chris Paul's name somewhere near the top of the list; 2) Paul deserves to be at least somewhere in the best-player conversation, if only because he makes you wonder what the use is of having the conversation in the first place.

...The best player is surely versatile and unselfish, but what separates him from the rest is his ability to score, to turn his team's offense into an expression of his will. Close your eyes and think of this kind of player. Chances are you're imagining someone who looks a lot more like Michael Jordan than he does Chris Paul.

That's because Paul, a point guard, doesn't really play hero ball. (He can when needed: With the Clippers down 97-86 with seven minutes to play in their playoff opener against the Warriors, Paul scored 10 of Los Angeles's next 16 points to tie the game at 102.) He's never scored more than 43 points in a game—LeBron and Durant have pulled off the feat a combined 46 times—or more than 35 points in a playoff game, which Durant and LeBron have managed 31 times. Paul can't easily be extricated from a team context, since what he does best of all—and perhaps as well as anyone ever to play the position—is initiate an effective interaction with a teammate.

Is Chris Paul Somehow Underrated?

I keep on saying Paul is one of the most underrated players ever to be top 3. It's because Paul never cared about stats or being the "hero" on these Clips teams,he just wants to win and his being passive I feel is only a regular season thing.
Can't wait to see him tear it up in the playoffs later (against the Grizzlies I hope,I want to beat those pedobears)