Bosh's MVP Chances

[The_Hater]

Honestly if Bosh has a monster finish and the Raps make a run at 50 games he'll still probably finish somewhere between 6-10 in the MVP voting. Right now he wouldn't even be in the top 15-18.

There are just so many players having superior seasons and playing on superior teams right now and it's not like they're all going to go in the tank at once. Plus Bosh is one of those guys considered an all-star caliber player but not a superstar on the same level as Bron, Kobe and some other perrenial MVP contenders.

[will]

No chance.

MAYBE if the Raptors won 50 games and went on a huge winning streak, all while Bosh averaged 50points, 22 boards, 7 dimes, 5 blocks, and 5 steals and shot 79% from the field, and shot 94% from the line.

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All good points, but again, Garnett went nowhere by himself. What has that team where it is is the Big 3, not KG himself.

Then again, he may win it just by virtue of the whole best player on the best team. What if they keep their recent slide up and Detroit outpaces them though? Does KG still win it?

You look at his stats from Minnesota, and then you look at how he is playing in Boston. There is absolutely no change in his game, he just defers to his capable teammates which is why his stats are technically less impressive offensively.

If I had to "take someone out" with a cheap foul on the Celtics, I would be running at KG because to me, he is the difference maker on that Celtics team. Pierce would be second, with Allen a distant third.

Although it is interesting that he has averaged ONLY 9.1 rebounds in December, and is at 7.6 rebounds in January. That I actually found really surprising.

Could Bosh win an MVP award at some point in his career. Yeah, I actually think he could. He isn't the defensive shutdown player that a guy like KG is, but he has shown this year that he can be a bigger point producer than I think most of thought he was capable of. Coming into the year I figured Bosh's point "explosions" would max out in the low 30s. This year he is showing that he can have games where he really dominates at the offensive end. That looks favourably on the MVP voters usually.

He would have to have an unbelievable season though...something like 26PPG 13RPG 2APG or something like that to have a shot though. I think he's capable of having that kind of season, but not right now.

Getting POW honours is a good thing, but you have to be realistic. It was the first week that he did it all year. Granted he was playing hurt for most of the season, and then there is an adjustment period once you finally get healthy, but his season is a work in progress. If he played like has has recently for the rest of the year, you could argue he would finish high, but that is an unrealistic expectation, because even Jordan didn't win POW every single week.

[The_Hater]

You look at his stats from Minnesota, and then you look at how he is playing in Boston. There is absolutely no change in his game, he just defers to his capable teammates which is why his stats are technically less impressive offensively.

Also, he's playing about 6 mpg less than he did with the Wolves and Boston plays at a very methodical pace (less shots, less available rebounds etc...).

This is very similar to the Nash situation. Nash got credit for coming to Phoenix and turning a lottery team into a run-and-gun juggernaut and the top offensive team in the league so he got 2 MVP's out of it.

In this case, Garnett has come in and turned a lottery team into the league's elite defensive team. And like Nash was in Phoenix, he's the primary reason for this huge turnaround.

I don't think that he's a slam dunk to win the award, but if the season ended today I think that he'd be on the short list. Top 2-3 at worst. And voters definitely like to give this award to the top player on the league's top regular season team even if that player isn't considered the best player in the league. Nash and Dirk being recent examples.

[Uros Slowcar]

As slim as Chris Bosh.

[will]

As slim as Chris Bosh.

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