Wed Dec 11, 2002 11:08 pm
Thu Dec 12, 2002 2:32 am
EGarrett wrote:Here's the way I'd divvy it up...
MVP - Dirk Nowitzki
2nd Place - Shaquille O'Neal
Last place - Vince Carter
Best player on the best team. Shaq is second by merely showing the world what the Lakers are without him. Vince Carter...AKA the "Tin-Man" has been rather embarrassing...from not living up to his own comments to the Nelly concert fiasco to more injuries...
EGarrett wrote:Defensive Player - Ron Artest
2nd Place - Ben Wallace
Last place - Richard Hamilton
Ben Wallace is a close second, but Artest's ability to cover the loads of scoring swingmen on the league is really being put on display this year. Richard Hamilton should be nicknamed Drive-Thru...
EGarrett wrote:Coach of the Year - Isiah Thomas
2nd Place - Don Nelson
Last Place - George Karl
Like it or not, the Quick offense is for real. If you watch the Pacers play they get lots of layups off of it. Nellie gets 2nd for convincing the Mavs the play defense. George Karl continues to be boiled in oil for the World Championships...his team's collapse last year...The Sonics endless collapses in the playoffs...quasi-racist comments...the fact that all his players hate him...blah blah blah...
EGarrett wrote:Most Improved - Desmond Mason
2nd place - Kwame Brown
Last place - Dikembe Mutombo![]()
Most Improved started out belonging to Kwame, but he went back to normal form after the first few games. Desmond, on the other hand, has been a stream of highlights due to defenses' having to respect his much improved jumper. He should be starting soon. Dikembe is still a great defensive center. The problem is that he knew he was going to play less minutes but is now complaining about it and is a tad more brittle then he was.
EGarrett wrote:Sixth Man - Desmond Mason
2nd place - Bobby Jackson
Last place - Vin Baker
Same as above for Desmond. If MJ hadn't demanded to start he'd be in the 2nd place slot. I've quite seen a team lose energy the way Vin Baker drains the Celtics when he steps on the court.
EGarrett wrote:Rookie of Year - Yao Ming
2nd place - Dajuan Wagner
Co-Last place - Mike Dunleavy & Chris Wilcox
"Yaaaaoo Minnnnng...Yaao Miiiing!" All the critics and detractors seem to be joining the chorus. Second place to Dajuan Wagner who has been putting up Iverson scoring nights at times. Mike Dunleavy...or "The White Piece of Bread" as he is known to angry foreign Warriors fans...baffled me as a third pick in this Draft and is playing a lot more like the mid-to-late first rounder he should've been. I was likewise baffled when certain people on this board (sounds like "Boctor P") picked Chris Wilcox to be ROY on a team with Elton Brand and Melvin Ely already at his position...and I still have no idea what they thought would happen.
EGarrett wrote:GM of the Year - Geoff Petrie (Sacramento Kings)
2nd place - Rod Thorn (Nets)
Last place - Tie - Scott Layden (Cavs), Jim Paxson (Cavs), Garry St. Jean (Warriors)
Geoff Petrie (is that how you spell it?) deserves some recognition for his ongoing serial rape of the NBA. Chris Webber for Mitch Richmond? Mike Bibby for Jason Williams? Jumaine Jones for Mateen Cleaves??? Amazing. Signing Keon Clark was nice work also. Rod Thorn made the Nets better than last year with his free agent signings alone as well as stealing Nenad Krstic in the first-round of the Draft. It's actually just hard to find a second place GM and I really did this for Last Place. Layden continues to turn the Knicks into the Washington Generals. Garry St. Jean somehow managed to blow a 3rd pick, mid-first round pick AND the first pick in the second round all in the same draft. Jim Paxson...Lamond Murray for Michael Stewart? What the hell are you doing?
EGarrett wrote:All-NBA Team
C Shaquille O'Neal
F Dirk Nowitzki
F Tim Duncan
G Allen Iverson
G Jason Kidd
All-Defensive Team
C Ben Wallace
F Tremaine Fowlkes
F Ron Artest
G Gary Payton
G Jason Kidd
EGarrett wrote:Yea, Tremaine Fowlkes!
EGarrett wrote:All-Rookie Team
C Yao Ming
F Amare Stoudemire
F Drew Gooden
G Dajuan Wagner
G Jay Williams
That's it from EGville.
Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:05 am
Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:24 am
All-NBA Team
C Shaquille O'Neal
F Dirk Nowitzki
F Tim Duncan
G Allen Iverson
G Jason Kidd
Thu Dec 12, 2002 5:57 am
Eventhough Vince hasn't returned the way he predicted the Raptors HAVE been a better team with him playing, so does that make him least valuable? When his team plays better when he plays?
Wilkins should be candidate for worst coach.
Good choice, Mason is looking great. Jackson is starting I don't understand how he got in here? Marshall is starting now as well, same with Harpring. I don't really know a second place now, but Mason could definately go for 6th man.
I don't think someone should be awarded on achievements from previous years (it doesn't work like that in other categories either), no matter how good they might've been. So that takes out Petrie, since his only achievement this season was signing Clark. What about the Sixers GM (dunno the name) they made some good moves and drafting.
Tremaine Fowlkes?
Good team, but Jay Williams? He doesn't look so good and steady to me. Maybe it'll come...but for now he hasn't impressed me. I'd write in Hilario instead of him.
what? Iverson over
Thu Dec 12, 2002 9:21 pm
Thu Dec 12, 2002 10:28 pm
Fri Dec 13, 2002 12:33 am
Fri Dec 13, 2002 2:05 am
I doubt that actually, maybe Redd will get a start when Cassell retires. They could run two shooting guards. They are both good ball handlers
Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:38 am
There are other teams in the league besides the Lakers...and you should acknowledge that they're looking horrible right now and thus don't deserve much of anything.
I think you forgot Kareem Rush for ROY, Derek Fisher for the Citizenship Award and Mitch Kupchak for Exec of the Year...
Fri Dec 13, 2002 4:35 pm
Fri Dec 13, 2002 6:55 pm
Sat Dec 14, 2002 3:17 am
limpdilznik wrote:on a side note: personally, i think that laddas_kb8 and kobe4mvp are the same person.
Sat Dec 14, 2002 5:18 am
Sat Dec 14, 2002 5:34 am
These aren't the midseason awards, they are what we think the end of season awards are going to be. Phil Jackson is definately in with a chance if he can turn this bad year around.
when you made such crazy moves of putting Iverson in front of Kobe and TMac in the All NBA Team.
Sat Dec 14, 2002 8:06 am
Iverson's team is doing better than both Kobe and McGrady's team. Shaq and Grant Hill are also a lot better help than Keith Van Horn and Eric Snow. The teams with the better records get the recognition. Teams don't need a stars help to be crappy...
Sat Dec 14, 2002 8:09 am
All-Defensive Team
C Ben Wallace
F Tim Duncan
F Ron Artest
G Kobe Bryant
G Jason Kidd
Sat Dec 14, 2002 1:01 pm
MVP - Dirk Nowitzki
2nd Place - Shaquille O'Neal
Last place - Vince Carter
Sat Dec 14, 2002 2:06 pm
Sun Dec 15, 2002 2:42 am
Shaq and Hill both have injury troubles. This is the reason for both their teams bad starts. So they haven't been as much help as the healthy Van Horn and Snow.
Do you think you will be saying that Iverson's team is better then Kobes and TMacs at the end of the season and the playoffs?
I don't agree with you at all! Vince Carter has missed so many games this season already.
Sun Dec 15, 2002 9:17 am
Sun Dec 15, 2002 9:42 am
MVP - Kevin Garnett, who's having perhaps the best season of his career
Sun Dec 15, 2002 9:50 am
Brave Sir Rubin wrote:since KG's season is excelent (much better than last year), plus KG may be called one of the only "flawless" NBA players..or like LIVE would say it "no Major weaknes...
Sun Dec 15, 2002 9:59 am
first in nba.com's moronic effiecency rating...
Sun Dec 15, 2002 10:12 am
Efficiency Formula: ((PTS + REB + AST + STL + BLK) - ((FGA - FGM) + (FTA - FTM) + TO)) / G