How is Lebron not the MVP. Im not even a Lebron fan, but to think anyone else deserves it is just asinine, asiten, asieleven. Lebron shoots 54%. I picked the Cavs to win it all before the KD move, still stand by that without question.
-Westbrook is over-rated. Shoots 42% as a point guard, I could care less about the triple double. Broke the record for most Turnovers in a season which was held by......you guessed it, James Harden. Westbrook is a beast, fun to watch, motor is always redline, monster dunks, insane athlete.
-Harden is over-rated. Shoots 44% as a shooting guard. Harden breaks the record for Turnovers again. Plays little to no defense, he did get better this year, but come on.
-Leonard is a good player but he isnt even in the conversation with the two above. The point differential for the Spurs when he isnt on the floor.....2pts. At least he shoots 48% and doesnt turn the ball over.
Harden and Westbrook broke all time records for turnovers that stood for 40 years.
I guess you could argue more-so about the word Valuable in MVP.
Man, i wish i would of been more apart of this thread on BR.com
Basketball is my first love.
Lebron, although easily the best player in the world and a top 10 player of all time, did not put the pedal to the metal during the regular season which is what the award is about. He's been conserving his energy for the postseason, and given that he's getting older that's understanable. If he really wanted to, he could have averaged a triple double this season with relative ease and had run away with the MVP. But he doesn't give a damn about that anymore.. He wants rings.
If the playoffs were to be factored in. Leonard would have won it in a landslide. When he was in the game, Spurs were winning, probably take the series to seven. When Leonard got hurt, sweep.
Westbrook would be in second by virtue of having a shitty basketball team around him and having to do everything. Westbrook in the game, Thunder have a 12 point leave. Westbrook leaves the game, and literally 30 seconds later the Thunder lose the lead. I know you don't care about the triple double, but he needed to average that for the Thunder to be relevant. He should win the MVP. Without him the Thunder are a lottery team.
Harden. Most overrated player in the NBA and it's not even close. Damn the statistics. He never shows up for big games, a lot of his game is predicated on fouls, and the goddamn Kobe/Jordan comparisons make me want to vomit. Kobe and Jordan in their primes would kick Harden's ass up and down the curb, pick up his corpse, and do it again. No defense, master choke artist, just straight up plays the game the wrong way. Say what you will about Lebron, Westbrook. They may be intense, and whine a lot. But ultimately, that's their demeanor. Westbrook is going 100% all the time. He never gives up. It comes back to bite him in the ass(Westbrook= hero ball king), but he's deservedly a top 5 player in the NBA today. Lebron is the same way. He calls for a lot of fouls, but he's not dirty, and makes everyone around him better. Sorry. I'd take Kyrie Irving over Harden every day of the week.
[doublepost=1495616141,1495615192][/doublepost]But honestly. We, as fans, need the Cavs to win it all. KD completely ruined not only his legacy, but made the league even less fair than it was before.
What if Jordan had left the bulls to join the showtime lakers? Yeah. Having the greatest passer of all time along with the greatest scorer in NBA history and arguably the greatest player ever on the same team. They would have won every damn championship that decade. That's a load of horseshit.
"But Lebron did something similar". No he didn't. Lebron left a team that had little to no talent on it and formed a super team in Miami, which a few seasons before was a lottery team. Lebron leaving made a ton of sense. People hate him(myself included) for the way he went about it(I mean a television special? How big is your ego?). The KD thing was FAR worse.
And yes, KD actually ruined his legacy. He wins a ring. Guess what, Steph and co. Have done it before. And Steph has been the better player during the postseason thus far. If the Warriors win the finals, everyone will point to the fact that he literally joined a team that set the wins record last year. But if they lose? His legacy is even more screwed. I mean. Going to form the team with arguably the greatest starting lineup in the history of the NBA, with TWO MVPs in the starting lineup? LOL. Them losing would be hilarious and hopefully go a long way in discouraging super teams.
The Warriors SHOULD win the finals series. But I don't think they will.
The Cavs happen to have an unguardable juggernaut named Lebron James. I mean, I hate his guts, but he's the best player in the world and the guy in second place(KD himself) is CLEARLY below him. Absolutely nobody can stop that man. "But Lost what about the finals two years ago. They did a good job of containing him". Bullshit. Kevin Love and Kyrie were both injured that series and Lebron James balled out and made the series interesting. I've never seen an NBA finals series where I thought that the MVP should go to the guy on the losing team(And let's be real. Lebron should have won the MVP for that series).
Oh, and his sidekicks? Kyrie Irving just had a game where he tapped into the Black Mamba. I'm convinced that he's easily the most clutch player in the league right now, and he's absolutely unguardable because of his handles and elite range. Last night more or less solidified his status as a top 10 player in the world and he's easily better than Klay(who can't handle him), and Draymond.
Draymond green is a hell of a player.. But he's the only big the Warriors got. He has to contend with Kevin Love, a stud on the glass, and Tristian Tomphson, a pest on the glass. The Cavs are going to outrebound the warriors.
Warriors have better shooting. But the Cavs can keep up with them. Kyle Korver is on Steph Curry's level as a shooter. Just straight up. If he's wide open, it's more likely than not to go in. He's also a damn good team player. JR Smith, even though he is the least fundamentally sound player in the NBA, has a good jumpshot. You cannot leave him wide open. Kevin Love is a well above average three point shooter. Kyrie himself is an elite three point shooter.
But what puts the cavs over the top is their depth. Sure, Warriors have Iggy and Livingston. But the Cavs have more. Frye, Korver, Shumpert, Deron Williams.
The Cavs are deeper. The Warriors have the better starting lineup, but it's not much better.
Curry vs. Irving- Curry's better. But he can't exactly defend Irving. So they'll have to put Tomphson on him. And we all know Klay has a tougher time with him.
Tomphson vs. JR Smith- LOL. Tomphson is far and away superior in every facet.
Lebron James vs. KD- Lebron James routinely makes KD his bitch when they play each other.
Draymond Green vs. Kevin Love- Love is a better scorer, shooter, and rebounder. Green is a better passer, and defender. This is more of a draw, but Green has his hands full with Love.
Zaza vs. Tomphson- LOL. Landslide for Tristian.
They're evenly matched.
I can't believe I'm saying this. But go Cavs. I'd be cheering for the Warriors if there was no KD
