I think you're mixing up points here. I don't know if he should be the MVP and if that was all you were saying I'd stay out of this argument but the idea he's a stat padder is absurd. 48 wins with that junk around him? Incredible. And it's not like he hasn't taken his team to the conference finals putting up great stats. Not as great, but he had more talent around him and didn't need to do as much every night.
Such a good point.
Jason Kidd said something similar after the Mavs win. He said it's math. If your team can shoot well enough from the 3, the other team has to work extra hard to keep up scoring only twos. It's how GS runs. They will shoot a ton of 3's. You either keep up with them or lose. Our 3-point shooting will never be more important than in a series with GS. You have to keep pace (not necessarily make more threes) and dominate the paint. Meaning our inside out game will have to be on point. This is the one team where even if our mid-range game is dominate it won't be enough.
But 6 others won it with losing in first round or not making the playoffs. So that’s 7 of 67. That’s 10 1/2%. Is it the majority? No. Is it a crazy outlier? Not by a mile when you consider it’s as many that won it having lost in the finals.
Wrong. See above.
Actually when you look at the stats of the previous guys who hit the 25/5/5 mark on the best team it shows most of them did not sacrifice stats. Most were both the high scorer on the best team and big stat guys. Nash is an outlier in the mvp stats conversation.
You seem to not be reading what I’m saying. You stay home on the three shooters, only double off green, and live with green or Wiggins scoring. I’m saying don’t give the three that an ordinary rotation defense would give.
Lol. He’s on a sixth seed playing a team that if healthy (which it is now) likely would’ve threatened for the one seed.
That guy is an idiot. I don’t even know where to begin tearing him apart. But because I can’t respond directly to him, I’m not going to bother. I am stupider for having listened to his rant.
Yeah Barton lost it. I saw the replay.Apparently Cousins and Will Barton got into it on the bench and had to be separated and there's reports that the coach Malone was absolutely furious with Cousins after the game he felt like he had to put Jokic in earlier than he wanted because Cousins was out of control emotionally on the court and that ultimately led to Jokic getting kicked out. this link has some video of Cousins and Barton arguing.
Warriors turn Nuggets against each other as Will Barton, DeMarcus Cousins snap on bench in Game 2
Nikola Jokic was ejected near the end of Game 2 following the Nuggets' internal fight, too.sports.yahoo.com
And it’s been a WHOPPING two games on the warriors home court. And he’s still averaging 25/10/5. Playing 1 on 5.
That’s just it, there is no standard.
I watched it. Wished I hadn’t. It was stupid guy yelling. He was Stephen A. Smith stupid.
