2016-17 MVP Discussion Thread

AussieBuck · Post #1241 » by **AussieBuck** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 6:27 am

Expecting Giannis and Lowry to rise up the board as the season goes on.

jangles86 · Post #1242 » by **jangles86** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 6:50 am

John Wall needs a lot more respect. He's the best point guard behind Westbrook and Currythis year and the Wizards are starting to look a lot better.

DBA · Post #1243 » by **DBA** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 7:01 am

jangles86 wrote:John Wall needs a lot more respect. He's the best point guard behind Westbrook and Currythis year and the Wizards are starting to look a lot better.

No he's not, KL7 is

Th3RaptorSwag · Post #1244 » by **Th3RaptorSwag** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 8:35 am

jangles86 wrote:John Wall needs a lot more respect. He's the best point guard behind Westbrook and Currythis year and the Wizards are starting to look a lot better.

Harden is Point guard this year too..

Apollo64 · Post #1245 » by **Apollo64** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 11:31 am

It's very difficult at this point to make a pick. Generally the best player from the team with best record wins the award and that should currently be Durant, then again you have Westbrook averaging a TD and Harden with crazy numbers too. This looks like it is going to be a very split vote in the end.

jaybiddyforeal · Post #1246 » by **jaybiddyforeal** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 2:47 pm

AussieBuck wrote:Expecting Giannis and Lowry to rise up the board as the season goes on.

Lowry 41/9/7 on 12-16 FG last night.

Hopefully he can put up another performance like that vs the Spurs tomorrow.

nbafan38 · Post #1247 » by **nbafan38** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 3:56 pm

Westbrook vs Giannis tonight should be interesting, both players which chance to make a statement

RoyceDa59 · Post #1248 » by **RoyceDa59** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 7:52 pm

I think Harden and Westbrook are neck and neck right now for the MVP. Great to see both of these players hitting their respective primes. It will probably come down to who finishes higher in the standings.

Durant and Curry will eat each others Lunch, and James had his day and is more coasting until the playoffs these days. I don't see anyone else in the discussion.

Post #1249 » by **Young_Star11** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 9:38 pm

Tough January for OKC and Houston

OKC have 12 of 15 on the road and nine of 15 are above .500

Houston play teams who are better defensively

They play each other this Thursday

mademan · Post #1250 » by **mademan** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:02 pm

Give it to Harden already

Hero · Post #1251 » by **Hero** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:25 pm

mademan wrote:Give it to Harden already

Season isn't even half finished. Let's see if he keeps it up, if Houston stays healthy etc.

AussieBuck · Post #1252 » by **AussieBuck** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:47 pm

nbafan38 wrote:Westbrook vs Giannis tonight should be interesting, both players which chance to make a statement

Yep I think people are discounting Giannis too much given at this stage the Bucks are better by SRS and have a lot of scope for improvement over the season as Middleton returns and eventually Henson gets fired out of a cannon or something.

jangles86 · Post #1253 » by **jangles86** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:48 pm

John Wall wins eastern conference player of the week. On 24ppg/13apg/5rpg/2.7spg going 3-0.
Moving the Wizards into the 6th seed.

greekbuck34 · Post #1254 » by **greekbuck34** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:12 am

Giannis is playing as well as Westbrook, Harden and Lebron with worse roster.
The stats proves it. The eye test proves it.

If Middleton was healthy and the Bucks had won 4-5 of the 7-8 games they lost in the last minute he would have been up there with them in the MVP race.

red96 · Post #1255 » by **red96** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:23 am

Harden with another tripple double. 3rd game in a row.

red96 · Post #1256 » by **red96** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:26 am

Hero wrote:
mademan wrote:Give it to Harden already

Season isn't even half finished. Let's see if he keeps it up, if Houston stays healthy etc.

The Rockets aren't healthy. They're missing 2 of their starters.

HurricaneKid · Post #1257 » by **HurricaneKid** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:37 am

red96 wrote:Harden with another tripple double. 3rd game in a row.

I've been going after RWB for his absurd triple doubles so I'm going to stay intellectually honest here. This one was Ricky Davis-like.

Hou was up 8 with the ball and he got an assist with 10 seconds left. After the opposition stopped trying.

This BS needs to stop.

HurricaneKid · Post #1258 » by **HurricaneKid** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:42 am

I watched the Bucks/OKC game and I'm just disappointed in RWB. I knew he was a chucker but that was embarrassing.

9/28. 2/10 from 3.

OKC was up going into the last few min and Russell was 0/3 with a TO. And they were the worst 3 shots I could imagine a player with his skills taking in a game.

Post #1259 » by **bondom34** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:44 am

I think we can agree they both suck and are stat padding ball hogs.

Who are the leading MVP candidates.

AussieBuck · Post #1260 » by **AussieBuck** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 3:45 am

Westrbrook is having a great season, no need to **** on him.