Is T-MAC a chance for West POTM?? He's averaging 27.7 pts, 5.3 assists. 4.5 boards and 1.7 steals. I havn't calculated his fg, 3pt or ft percentages but there about average for his season i think. He's led us to a 6-4 month so far but with likely victories against Boston and Toronto at home will give us a 8-4 record for the month without our best player. Who else would be eligable. Nowitzki i guess would be favourite. He has had an awesome month but do you think TMAC has a chance to snatch it this month. Let me know your thoughts Peace
^^^ EDIT: have to mention Tyson Chandler in there to and probably Deron Williams. Both have been on a tear and have led their teams to good records
If he didn't win it in January, I don't see why he'd win it in February. It will almost certainly go to Nowitzki. 27.6 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 5.0 apg, 1.5 bpg, 1.3 spg, 1.9 tpg, 53.5 FG%, 42.9 3P%, 92.0 FT%, in 37.6 mpg so far. Oh, and Dallas is undefeated.
I almost feel like they should give it to tmac this month because they didn't last month, but I guess it doesn't work that way. Very selfish of dirk to take all of these awards.
He's right, it will go to Dirk. Stats are obviously huge, but the kicker is always how the TEAM does with these kinds of awards. The fact the Mavs went undefeated AND beat the Rockets twice, Dirk is going to get the award. But I submit that Dirk had a lot more help in the form of Terry and Howard whereas Tmac has to do most of it on his own.
No. Yao is not the best. That's easy. He should get Player of the Month/Week earlier. He mut be this time, maybe with Carter because he is playing great too. It's just obvious.
I kinda think you have to win player of the week first in order to qualify for player of the month...but I hope I am wrong!
Interestingly enough, in February our +/- with McGrady on the court hasn't been as impressive as it was in January. Per 48 minutes, we're +1.7 with McGrady, and we're actually +8.4 without him. In January, we were +10.7 with McGrady, and -3.3 without.
The "Lenovo stat" tells you point differential (how many more points your team scored than the opponent) while a player or combination of players are on the court. What IBM's Lenovo stat software does is mine all the +/- (i.e. point differential) data for various combinations and tell you things like which 5-player combination has the best +/-. For instance, the Rockets "best" 5-man lineup according to the Lenovo stat is McGrady-Alston-Battier-Yao-Hayes with a rating of 109. That just means that we've outscored the opponent by 109 points while those 5 players on the court together. What I'm showing with the numbers above is +/- per 48 minutes with McGrady on the court versus when he's off the court.
