GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Winning MVP on a low seed with another MVP candidate starting next to you has no realistic chance of happening. That is all.Obviously you have a hard time reading, I already said that Curry will always have the advantage (as long as he keeps playing the way he does and the Warriors keep winning they way they are). Plus the voters will weigh into account their record since Westbrook returned from injury. It won't be as simple as being a 6/7 seed, like I've already stated.
Cousy/Russell did it. It's still within the realms of possibility. Certainly when both of them are top 5 players.
Why do you always take everything out of context? I never said it disqualified Harden from being a candidate, just that he didn't have the best argument out of all the players in the MVP discussion. Why are you acting like I said that Harden isn't in the MVP frame (given how the voting system works), when I already mentioned he was? The thread clearly said that he should be #1 ahead of Gasol/Curry, I disagreed with that.
READ YOU DUMB fukk.
As above, Curry will have the advantage over Westbrook, Harden and whoever else, as long as the Warriors have the best record. That thread proclaimed that Harden was more deserving than Curry up to this point, I stated why he wasn't (I also mentioned that Harden was one of the candidates) and his turnover rate was ONE of the reasons why he shouldn't have an argument over Curry. ONE of the reasons. ONE of the reasons. Would you like me to say it again? ONE of the reasons, NOT the sole reason like you're making it out to be (Westbrook does need to clean up his turnover numbers too, don't get it fukked up).
Plus I like how you're blatantly leaving out the fact that that Harden's numbers were accumulated on 37/38%-40% shooting for over 70% of the season and only recently upped his average to 42%, whereas Westbrook is currently shooting 50%.
Not to mention he's playing less than 30 minutes per game (Harden is playing 37 minutes), so his production will go up.
If we were to take that 9 minute game where he got injured against the Clippers out of the equation (which skews all his averages) - a clearer picture of his season would be:
28.5 ppg on 50% shooting, 7.0 apg, 6.2 rpg, 4.3 turnovers on 32.5 minutes per game.
That's quite clearly the best numbers out of any player in the league (yes, even taking the turnovers into account).
Once KD starts to develop some rhythm and plays more minutes, I do expect it to take an effect on Westbrook's numbers, although with the way he's playing it won't be much. I certainly don't think Durant will be averaging 32 ppg this season. With all these metrics and advanced stats that are becoming more and more relevant in the game and with Westbrook pretty much the leader in all of them - it will go a LONG way when we get to the business end of the season and everything is micro-measured for MVP voting.
Westbrook's current PER is 31.78, which is currently 2nd best of all time, not just this season. I don't expect him to maintain that rate for the entire season, but there won't be much of a sharp drop off as long as he stays healthy.
Even though it's still far too early, I just threw out the idea that Westbrook winning the MVP is a realistic chance of happening. That is all.
Or maybe it's you who's incapable of knowing how the game works.
Don't make foolish/dishonest arguments to begin with and you wont have to spend so much time clarifying/getting upset/backpeddling/copping pleas. Save yourself a lot of trouble.
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