The Bucks best player in the two games they played the Rockets this year were Brogdan and Bledsoe. The Bucks are playing well in Bud's system.
Unfortunately, the only people supporting Windbag's narrative are other nba journalists or "analysts" who have a vote.
When you know you gotta play Harden in the playoffs soon, you better say a bunch of nice things and hope he doesn’t drop 60 pt triple doubles.
Long Story Short, ,, , the MVP was chosen in the PreSeason and all those people cannot admit they were wrong Rocket River
Oh, right. That’s it? He made it sound like it was going to be some larger feature that he was asked to contribute to.
I loled at "The Alphabet." Giannis is fine; the media is to blame for all this drama. Someone tell them that you can't spell Giannis Antetokounmpo without "no omnipotent king".
I hope Harden won't be too disappointed when he doesn't get his 2nd MVP. Instead, he should channel his anger and focus for the playoffs, win a championship ring and perhaps Finals MVP, just like Hakeem 25 years ago. A trade off of short term pain for long term glory.
I don't know. Back in the day, it was not too long after the close of regular season. You may be right.
yea but Brian Windhorst, says that he talked to a bunch of NBA players who all agreed Giannis is the MVP.
I like Giannis a lot: cool dude, great player. Also, I am a Rockets fan, not a Harden fan, I don't care much about individual awards; in fact as a Rockets' fan, maybe one of the best things that has happened to us was Admiral winning the 1995 MVP and giving Dream that extra edge that got us the second championship. So if the Greek Brick wins it, I won't be upset, in fact it may work for the best, if it gives James this extra edge, the way it worked for Dream... HOWEVER, purely objectively, as a basketball fan, I don't see how you are NOT going to give the MVP to James??!! Last year James was MVP, Giannis was 5th, and they both improved this season, HOWEVER James improved by MORE! Giannis is making a solid progress from year to year, but James went from 30 ppg to 36 ppg, while improving rebounds, usage, steals, defense... Giannis? well, added a rebound, an assist, and half-a-point or so to his averages: cool story bro, but how do you compare that to going from the best scorer in the league to being one of the best scorers EVER? I don't need to explain that adding 6 points to a 30 ppg average is not the same as going from 11 to 17 ppg, right (for example)? Of course, I get that the teams went in the opposing directions, but MVP is an individual award. If you could make this narrative: "Giannis made THE LEAP and took the Bucks from mediocre to the best team in the league", then, ok... But nobody is making this narrative, because they can't. There was no LEAP: he's a great player, who is slightly better this year than the player he was last year. 90% of the reason for Milwaukee's ascent is Coach Bud, and everybody knows it. (The other 10%: Giannis improvement, Bledsoe's contract year play, Brook Lopez, getting rid of J.Parker). That's the story, Coach Bud should be anonymous COY and pushing any other narrative would be just disrespectful to him and not based in reality. The difference between the coaching dysfunction there last year and having a great coach explains almost everything. He did it in Atlanta, with Al Hortford and Paul Milsap as his best players: where were the "Milsap for MVP" narratives back then? The reasons the Rockets slipped are well-known (the roster at the start of the year, injuries, CP3 decline, etc...). But not many people talk about the other side: you can't attribute the Bucks turnaround to Giannis, you simply can't. That's why this is shaping to be one of the most fallacious MVP votes in history...
I put in bold the only thing that I disagree with, because the Rockets clearly don't run MDA's style of offense. There never was "7 Seconds or Less" during his Rockets Head Coach tenure. No "breakneck" pace; in fact, it has become even more slowed down and iso-heavy in the 2 seasons with Chris Paul in Rockets Red. If we had dedicated 3-Point specialists running MDA's true style of offense, with the volume of 3-Point attempts this team takes, we would have many more "boring wins" this season.
Meh, same **** happened in 1995 with Robinson winning the MVP. Then Dream wrekd his ass in the playoffs.
