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Texas Chuck wrote:reading this thread I see you are only allowed to cite a player on your favorite team. But while Dwight Powell is a worthy candidate after a slow start, I have Giannis and Tatum the two clear early frontrunners.
Yuri36 wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:reading this thread I see you are only allowed to cite a player on your favorite team. But while Dwight Powell is a worthy candidate after a slow start, I have Giannis and Tatum the two clear early frontrunners.
Lol how can Tatum be a clear front runner ahead of Luka or even Steph?
Yuri36 wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:reading this thread I see you are only allowed to cite a player on your favorite team. But while Dwight Powell is a worthy candidate after a slow start, I have Giannis and Tatum the two clear early frontrunners.
Lol how can Tatum be a clear front runner ahead of Luka or even Steph?
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Lamak wrote:Doncic, Giannis, Curry, Mitchell, and KD my 5 choices right now
ClipsFanAgain wrote:SGA 37/8/5 in a big comeback win. Thunder hovering around .500. It’s laughable he’s not a top 5 MVP candidate while Luka is on a near .500 team with much higher expectations. It’s like some players are being punished for bad team, others not. PS these are my two favorite NBA players, so it’s nothing personal.
slick_watts wrote:ClipsFanAgain wrote:SGA 37/8/5 in a big comeback win. Thunder hovering around .500. It’s laughable he’s not a top 5 MVP candidate while Luka is on a near .500 team with much higher expectations. It’s like some players are being punished for bad team, others not. PS these are my two favorite NBA players, so it’s nothing personal.
sga has been great but he's not in the same echelon as the top guys so far. the curious thing about sga season is how many 2pt shots he's making. 10+ a game. uncommon. giannis is the only other guy doing that this year, and zion williamson is the only guy to do it over a full season since 2007. the last guards to do it are allen iverson and kobe bryant in 2005-06, before that michael jordan in 1997-98.
basically, sga has been a serious outlier on how prolific and efficient he has been inside 3pt line, hard to see him keep that up over a full season. for the sake of his body's wear and tear maybe he should increase his 3pt attempts...
Texas Chuck wrote:Yuri36 wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:reading this thread I see you are only allowed to cite a player on your favorite team. But while Dwight Powell is a worthy candidate after a slow start, I have Giannis and Tatum the two clear early frontrunners.
Lol how can Tatum be a clear front runner ahead of Luka or even Steph?
He's playing great basketball on one of the two best teams in the league.
This thread is about MVP, not who is most awesome at basketball. When the most awesome at basketball thread is started, I would have Steph ahead of Tatum.
I'm simply trying to stick to the topic, sorry about that.
BoatsNZones wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:Yuri36 wrote:
Lol how can Tatum be a clear front runner ahead of Luka or even Steph?
He's playing great basketball on one of the two best teams in the league.
This thread is about MVP, not who is most awesome at basketball. When the most awesome at basketball thread is started, I would have Steph ahead of Tatum.
I'm simply trying to stick to the topic, sorry about that.
Not even critiquing your picks here, but using record this early in the season is a fools errand. It’s much more prescient to see who has been the best players period (and have the ability to keep it up), while taking into account who is likely to be HCA.
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eyeatoma wrote:Where was that meme, of Jokic slamming the door on Embiid grabbing the MVP trophy.
Still some work to do, but he's definitely entered the discussion.
GHOSTofSIKMA wrote: I think that we will do worse than last season and that Giannis is now just a mere all star. All because we switched from Bud to Griffin.
eyeatoma wrote:Where was that meme, of Jokic slamming the door on Embiid grabbing the MVP trophy.
Still some work to do, but he's definitely entered the discussion.
greekbuck34 wrote:eyeatoma wrote:Where was that meme, of Jokic slamming the door on Embiid grabbing the MVP trophy.
Still some work to do, but he's definitely entered the discussion.
We are 13 games in.
He missed 4 games, he was beyond terrible in at least 3-4 and his team is .500. He didn't enter any discussion yet unless you mean top 10 or top 15.
eyeatoma wrote:greekbuck34 wrote:eyeatoma wrote:Where was that meme, of Jokic slamming the door on Embiid grabbing the MVP trophy.
Still some work to do, but he's definitely entered the discussion.
We are 13 games in.
He missed 4 games, he was beyond terrible in at least 3-4 and his team is .500. He didn't enter any discussion yet unless you mean top 10 or top 15.
He has been terrible for the first few games, and has been putting up great numbers over the last 5-6 games. He is on a roll now, and this is the same thing that happened last year. Played bad, got covid, and then came back as the bigman version of MJ.
It's a stacked race right now, and Embiid is on the outside looking in, but if he plays and averages over 30 and the Sixers are winning? He'll most definitely be in the discussion. Also historically we've never had this many good MVP candidates, a bunch will drop off soon.
Right now I'd have it at
Giannis
Luka
Tatum
Mitchell
Morant
SGA
Embiid is probably where SGA is at this point.
GHOSTofSIKMA wrote: I think that we will do worse than last season and that Giannis is now just a mere all star. All because we switched from Bud to Griffin.
greekbuck34 wrote:eyeatoma wrote:greekbuck34 wrote:
We are 13 games in.
He missed 4 games, he was beyond terrible in at least 3-4 and his team is .500. He didn't enter any discussion yet unless you mean top 10 or top 15.
He has been terrible for the first few games, and has been putting up great numbers over the last 5-6 games. He is on a roll now, and this is the same thing that happened last year. Played bad, got covid, and then came back as the bigman version of MJ.
It's a stacked race right now, and Embiid is on the outside looking in, but if he plays and averages over 30 and the Sixers are winning? He'll most definitely be in the discussion. Also historically we've never had this many good MVP candidates, a bunch will drop off soon.
Right now I'd have it at
Giannis
Luka
Tatum
Mitchell
Morant
SGA
Embiid is probably where SGA is at this point.
There are more near or above SGA's level.
Siakam, Jokic, Lillard, Young, Zion etc.
If you are not close to top 3 or top 4 there is no point to discuss. There is a big gap yet from legit MVP candidates. If Empiid continues to dominate in the next 10 games and most of the top 4 MVPs miss games or struggle then Embiid will close the gap.