Re: Rumors were right

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

Well, Karl still gets my vote for league ODB.  But on
the subject of this award, if they would just change
the name of the award to "Player of the Year" they
could justify all the considerations that really do go
into it -- history, politics, intangibles, the good of
the league and so on.  MVP is idiotic, anyway -- there
is a guy on every team who is the most valuable.


--- Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu> wrote:
> > "R. Bentz Kirby" wrote:
> > > 
> > > The rumors were correct, Karl Malone is MVP.
>  
> > IMO, Malone was neither the MVP, nor the best
> player in the NBA this year.
> > Admittedly, the MVP criteria are fuzzy to me.
> Still, whether it's the player
> > with the largest overall contribution to his team,
> or the best overall
> > player, people like Duncan and Grant Hill, even
> Shaq, Mourning, Iverson, or
> > Jason Kidd, seem to be more worthy of the award.
> Given the above, I can only
> > explain this voting as an allocation due to
> seniority.
>  
> Well, this is a popularity contest voted on by media
> guys so I wouldn't
> put too much stock into it. I doubt that most of
> them do an in-depth
> analysis of the candidates before they vote. The
> voting was also taken 
> before the playoffs so they don't have the benefit
> of seeing Malone's
> subpar playoff performance. 
> 
> From hearing some media folks talk about their vote,
> Duncan may have been
> hurt by having Robinson on his team, because they
> voted based on, "What
> would the team be like without him?" The Spurs with
> David Robinson would
> still be quite a good team because Robinson could
> pick up the scoring load
> pretty easily - in the playoffs I've been impressed
> by his ability to score
> and draw double teams in the post. He still has a
> lot of quickness and he
> dominates defensively. The Jazz without Malone would
> probably be pretty 
> sorry. Still, I'd go with Mourning based on this
> type of reasoning.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

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