2016-2017 Season Awards Discussion

Oladipo over Nance as dunk of the year I can accept, because Howard lol Du-wight

 

how many does carlisle have? one?

btw, brad stevens and spoelstra were also deserving of consideration.

 

First post updated. Lots more awards than previous years.

 

It's official, Westbrook is the MVP.

 

I'm glad they went away from the best player on the best team criteria. The right guy won it.

 

Westbrook winning MVP just makes me salty about '05-'06, but it's about time they go away with the default "Best player on good team" setting for MVP

 

Happy for Westbrook. He's my favorite player in the league. He's incredible. His season this year was very reminiscent of Kobe in 2006 and 2007. Leading a terrible team to the playoffs in a loaded and brutal conference. Putting up ridiculous numbers, but also making a huge impact every night. Love that guy and his speech was the best moment of the night along with Monty recieving Sager's jacket.

 

yup Nance can win this every year but we hate Coward and love Brook so...

 

I will be very surprised if there are more than 3 editions of this awards show .

It was trash to say the least

 

There was no hype to it, I believe the NBA s*** the bed with this one. They couldn even get their best players to come out to this.

It comes down to timing. They could have capitalized on the end of season back and forth MVP battle between Harden and Westbrook. 75 days inbetween the end of regular season and the show. Should have done it the week before playoffs started to the winners could be applauded and cheered for at their home games.

There were some bright spots though. Bill Russell and Monty Williams parts were great and the new awards are kind of cool too.

 

nance is hilarious. we have to keep him just for the jokes.

 

Can't believe some actually think Harden or Leonard were robbed.

Don't get me wrong great players who had great seasons and I wouldn't have whined and b****ed if they won it.

However we're talking about a player who averaged a triple double in a season. For all the talk over the years about how LeBron would be that guy he NEVER did it. Hadn't been done in damn near 50 years.

What's even more ridiculous is people act like Westbrook just played for stats. Couldn't be further from the truth. Westbrook carried that team after Durant signed with the Warriors and somehow led them to a sixth seed in the Western Conference.

I mean to me that was the most impressive thing I've seen since our own Kobe Bryant led a really bad Lakers team to the playoffs twice in a row after Shaquille O'Neal was traded to Miami.

People said the same things about Kobe back then too. Oh he shoots too much. He's selfish. Doesn't make teammates better.

b*******. Take Kobe off the Lakers then. Take Russell off the Thunder now. They'd struggle to win 20 games and that's being kind. The fact both got to their teams to the playoffs in such a competitive and tough conference shows how great they're and they aren't selfish.

OKC doesn't have any other shot creators. They sure as hell don't have any shooters. Realistically the only player on that team that should even be a starter is Steven Adams. Just like with the Lakers when Lamar was the only starting caliber player. Look no further at that stat of how awful OKC is without Westbrook on the court.

I've seen tremendous growth from Westbrook as a player because much like Kobe when he was younger he was a guy who shot too much at times, didn't always read the defense, out of control, etc. Over the years he really matured as a player. Shot selection improved. He'd set up his teammates more. Made sure to get them involved early. Penetrating and kicking. Excellent passes out of the screen and roll. More in control especially in transition. Passing out of double teams and hitting the open man. Spoon feeding guys like Adams.

As I've said before Westbrook is my favorite player and as a result probably watched more OKC games then any other team not named the Lakers and I've seen that growth and improvement in his game. The biggest issue I see in OKC is the lack of shooting on that team. I can't tell you how many times I've seen Westbrook drive and make an excellent read only to see Robertson and others clank it.