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Who's #6?

***Voting Deadline: Thursday 11:59am***

Top 25 Players Ranking
1) LBJ
2) AD
3) KD
4) Curry
5) CP3

Include your votes as nominations please.

Blake?



DMC?



Harden?



Kawhi?



M.Gasol?



Westbrook?





Blake - HBK
DMC -
Harden - kk, macgyver, mkdaman
Kawhi -
M.Gasol -
Westbrook - Prok, claud, trb3


Nominees:
LMA - 2
Dwight - 2
Lopez - 1
PG13 - 1

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Here's the voting history of our Top 25 players threads since its inception:

Vote: Harden
Nominate: Aldridge

Vote: Griffin

He didn't get much MVP love because people were hating on his jumpers, but it turned out him working on his jumper made him an offensive juggernaut this season. Once the lights came on and it was playoff time Griffin could do it all. This is a power forward who can run the point, make awesome passes (averaged like 6 assist in the playoffs and 5 in RS), deep double digit rebounds, 25 points per game in the post season - a few triple doubles. Griffin's man to man defense is also much improved, while DeAndre Jordan was getting cooked by Duncan, Griffin gave big fundamental some problems.

If Griffin had more of a tasks of doing heavy lifting he would have been an MVP candidate. I'd take him over anyone who is left.

Nominate: Aldridge

Harden

Nominate LMA

Vote: Westbrook
Nominate: Dwight

HeartBreakKid wrote:Vote: Griffin

He didn't get much MVP love because people were hating on his jumpers, but it turned out him working on his jumper made him an offensive juggernaut this season. Once the lights came on and it was playoff time Griffin could do it all. This is a power forward who can run the point, make awesome passes (averaged like 6 assist in the playoffs and 5 in RS), deep double digit rebounds, 25 points per game in the post season - a few triple doubles. Griffin's man to man defense is also much improved, while DeAndre Jordan was getting cooked by Duncan, Griffin gave big fundamental some problems.

If Griffin had more of a tasks of doing heavy lifting he would have been an MVP candidate. I'd take him over anyone who is left.

Nominate: Aldridge

he is definitely hurt by not being the alpha on his team. if he was on another squad without paul hed be viewed as a lock top 5 player

Vote: Westbrook
Nomination: Brook Lopez

Vote: Westbrook

Nominate: Howard

Expanding upon my Harden vote since the conversation here is pretty light.

Found this tidbit interesting from Lowe's article yesterday on Harden's impact:
"Houston’s offense died all season with Harden on the bench. Things got especially embarrassing in the conference finals, when Golden State outscored the Rockets by 36 points in the 41 minutes Harden rested, per NBA.com. The series was almost dead even with Harden on the court, and if Lawson commits, Houston should be able to at least survive when Harden sits."

During the season the Rockets were +5.8 with him on the court and -3.0 when he sat.

Harden led the league in win shares
Harden was 2nd behind Curry in VORP
He was 3rd in RAPM behind just Lebron and Curry


There isn't much of a difference scoring wise between Westbrook and Harden, but Harden was much more efficient - 60.5 TS% vs 53.6%. Now most people usually point to FT's with Harden when discussing his efficiency, yes it's annoying to watch, but it's still a skill - drawing FT's and per 36 he and Westbrook average the same number of FT's. Harden is the much more efficient scorer.

He propped the Rockets up - they were the 2nd seed despite Howard missing half the season, Terrence Jones missing 49 games, Beverly missing 26 games. They got to the conference finals and gave the Warriors fight despite have a revolving door rotation of Terry/Prigs replacing Beverly and not having DMO. His defense was improved this past year. I know aesthetically his game isn't pleasing, but he's a great player.

vote Harden

Nominate Paul George

We have a tie between Harden & Westbrook as well as the nominees of LMA & Dwight.

We need tiebreakers.

NyCeEvO wrote:We have a tie between Harden & Westbrook as well as the nominees of LMA & Dwight.

We need tiebreakers.

i think westbrook should get the nod since he lost the last tiebreaker to curry

Harden just won that players choice MVP award. So there's that.


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macgyver893 wrote:Harden just won that players choice MVP award. So there's that.


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2nd this notion, since I voted for him too

Vote: Harden.

Nominate: Aldridge.

2Mas is kind of a regular poster here so if there are no more votes within the next few hours, Harden will win this round.

who's #7?

Vote: Kawhi -of of the nominenees, only Kawhi, Gasol, Blake, and Harden made the playoffs this year. And while all of these players are arguably the best at their position, I think Kawhi would be the deciding factor in a seven game series. Kawhi is an elite defender who knows when to assert himself in games. His feel for the game rivals that of Tim Duncan or Marc Gasol. Despite playing what was easily the best series of the playoffs against eachother, I think Kawhi is a much smarter player than Blake Griffin (less prone to play out of himself the way Blake can get carried away trying to be Westbrook)

Prokorov wrote:who's #7?

Yeah, I've been away for 2 weeks. I was going to continue #7 when I get back at the end of the week.

NyCeEvO wrote:

Prokorov wrote:who's #7?

Yeah, I've been away for 2 weeks. I was going to continue #7 when I get back at the end of the week.

go anywhere good?