NBA playoff rant:

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I think that people often forget what the MVP award is about. It's not necessarily for the best player in the league. If that was the case, Michael Jordan should have won it every year. But he didn't. Hell, they gave it to Barkley and Malone in years that MJ beat them in the finals. Same thing when they gave it to Robinson and Olajuwon crushed him in the playoffs. It's about more than that though. If I had a vote, I wouldn't simply vote fore who I thought was the best player. I would look to a guy that I thought had the best combination of being a great player and the most influential to his team's success. This year, Kobe was great. But I don't think he was better than he was the previous two seasons. Even this season, until they put Bynum into the starting lineup and he started flourishing, the Lakers were a .500 team. Then when Bynum went out, they struggled again until they got Gasol. So I question how much impact Kobe really had on that team. Even the past couple of years, they had a better record with Odom and no Kobe than they did with Kobe and no Odom. The argument can be made that when Nash won his first one, it should have gone to Shaq. I chose Shaq myself. Last year, I chose LeBron. But to say that it's an embarrassment that Nash won either of them is wrong. He was very much in the convo and very deserving. Where the Suns were, what he led them to, and what they are when he's not playing.....he's very much in the convo.

The reason why Kobe or KG wouldn't get it from me is because they alone didn't account for the big improvement of their respective teams. I don't think they had the same influence on their teams that Chris Paul or LeBron James did. I'm not even sure that they had a bigger influence on their teams than Tracy McGrady has on the Rockets. When you consider what the Rockets have done and where they are and then look, really look at that lineup, you really gain a lot of respect for McGrady. Everyone thought the season was lost when Yao went down but not only wasn't it lost, they stayed in contention for the top record in the conference until the final two games. All season long, my vote was for either James or Paul. At the end, I'd go with McGrady. Not as the best player but as the MVP.

.......you just explained WHY the award is flawed, its a opinion of who is the mvp to his respective team......impossible to say. what is clear, is that kobe is the best all around player in basketball......has been for 5 straight years, lebron is nipping at his heals. when they gave the awards to bark and karl over m.j. that was a laugh......

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

.......you just explained WHY the award is flawed, its a opinion of who is the mvp to his respective team......impossible to say. what is clear, is that kobe is the best all around player in basketball......has been for 5 straight years, lebron is nipping at his heals. when they gave the awards to bark and karl over m.j. that was a laugh......

I think there should be two awards. One for player of the year and one for most valuable to his team. I don't think though that it's clear that Bryant is the best player in the game. I go with James for that honor. James is so unselfish that people forget just how dominant he can be offensively if he chose to be. If he wanted to, I have little doubt that James could be a guy that goes for over 36 and 10 boards a night. His free-throw shooting hurt him and he's not as good an outside shooter as Bryant is but his ability to get to the basket is as good as if not better than Bryant. I think his ability to finish at the basket is better. He's much better at reading a defense and making the right play in any situation than Bryant is. That play in the last game against Washington was the perfect illustration of what kind of player he is. Last year against Detroit, he had the same situation and made a pass then too and when the shot was missed, he was criticized. People said that as the superstar, he needs to be the one taking the shot and not deferring to anyone. But that's not who he is. He's going to make the right play and sometimes, that's making the pass to the wide open guy.

It's tight as vagina in a convent but I'd go with James over Bryant.

[Mortimer]

Uh...have you ever been in a convent?