What are you supposed to do when people value their biases more than any shred of credibility and intelligence?
The difference is the Warriors beat the Rockets 4 times. If the Rockets beat the Spurs, a team the Warriors lost to, a case could have been made that the Warriors are just a bad match-up for them, but they are still one of the top teams in the league. Losing to the Spurs made that impossible.
There's a difference between biases and gaming the system Do you disagree with the following statement It is implausible to have a voting system (involving humans) that isn't influenced in some way by popularity, likability, etc?
My best friend commented about a reason why Harden should be MVP on an ESPN Insider article about how Steph Curry is "an easy pick" this year for the MVP. His comment got a lot of likes and was the most popular comment. ESPN deleted the comment and another comment of a picture of Harden that was the 2nd most popular comment. Seriously, the agenda, favoritism, censorship, and bias is real.
Houstunna is probably right. with those 2 loses to the spurs, Harden lost his chances, we dropped to 6th and he probably lost the scoring title which he had a grip on for the entire year but last month.
It shouldn't surprise anyone at this point. Steph Curry is going to win MVP. We can sit here and argue all day long about whether he deserves it or not. We can list all the reasons why we (as Houston homers on a Rockets website) this that Harden deserves the award over Curry. And, I will be honest, I (who am also a Houston homer) think that there are a lot of strong arguments for Harden over Curry. Houston has been near the top of the Western Conference standings all season long, even though they have been decimated by injuries. Our projected starting lineup at the beginning of the season has only played 2 games together all season. Two. Before the season started, "experts" picked us to finish 7th or 8th or even out of the playoffs altogether. Yet we have won 55 games. And it is undeniably because of Harden. Take him off our team and replace him with any other shooting guard in the entire league and the Rockets would almost assuredly miss the playoffs. You cannot deny what all he has done for our team this season and how sunk we would be without him. Steph Curry? Are we even sure he is the most valuable player on his own team? Klay Thompson has made huge strides this season, has had scoring games higher than Curry's and is a better defender than Curry is. Heck, even now, if Warriors fans had to choose between Curry or Bogut being injured for the playoffs, it would be a really hard choice for them to make. Remove Curry from that team and replace him with a different very good PG and the Warriors are probably still in the top 3 seeds. Or, remove Curry from that team and replace him with no one (and have Shaun Livingston start) and the Warriors would still make the playoffs. I get those arguments. I agree with most of those points. In my mind, Harden should win the MVP. But when Curry wins it, I won't complain either. He has had a phenomenal season on a phenomenal team. They should be rewarded for the season that team has had. I don't think it is a wrong choice for Curry to win MVP, I just think Harden is more right
Harden was not having a good game that night. In fact, the hacking fouls kept us nicely in the game. When they stopped fouling, we were still tied. Harden had a miss then a TO that enabled them to build a 5pt lead. Harden in those 2 SA losses couldn't extricate himself from the SAS defenders. Pretty bad luck to face SA in the closing games of the season. Magnified his difficulties. If the games were spaced out, it would not be as obvious.
They just need to end this yearly debate and just change the award to the "Player of the Year" award instead of "Most Valuable Player"
Preach it. The players would pick Harden no contest. The media picks San Francisco over Houston, not Curry over Harden.
Sarcasm? https://www.facebook.com/ESPN/posts...2496572840¬if_t=share_reply&__mref=message Find a post that says: "It appears that many of you have forgotten that MVP means most valuable player. Take away Harden and the Rockets are the 2nd worst offensive team in the league" Also, try to find a picture of Harden. Oh right, it ain't there. We did. EDIT: Picture deleted: point is proven, and for friend's privacy. Find this comment Durvasa.
Nope. Why do you think ESPN, as an organization, cares what some random commenter says? Is it possible some crazy admin deleted it for whatever reason? Sure. But if you think its something bigger, you're venturing into (frankly) nutty conspiracy theory territory.
