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yeah..
Dude is playing out of his mind so far. Dropped 44 pts, 7 asts, & 5 stls in only 32 minutes tonight in a blowout win over Portland (His 3rd 40+ point performance this season).
Has Houston just 1 game out of the #2 seed in the West, despite Dwight missing 11 games. Season averages thus far:
26 pts, 7 asts, 6 rbs, 2 stls, 1 blk, 25.04 PER.
And defensively, he's actually been pretty good this year:
1.9 defensive win shares leads the NBA.
#2 in defensive efficiency.
Averaging almost 2 stls per.
Some of this is is attributed to scheme and improved team defense (especially with Ariza replacing Chandler & Lin no longer there), and he's still not a great defensive player, but the improvements can't be ignored, tbh.
I know it's early, but he's got to be early favorite for MVP imo. I've heard Anthony Davis & Curry most, but Harden's having an incredible year so far. What say you?
yeah..
DMC's friend, tbh.
Anthony Davis tbh
I'd take Harden without any argument, tbh..
Curry and Davis as runners up, so far..
As of now? Yes. Easily. No hommerism in that, I'm actually very critical of Harden.
That being said, I think the 2nd half of the season will be a bit different. Lebron might have the cavs surge, Durant (the best offensive player on the planet) might get OKC streaking, AD is not too far off right now and something might cause the Pelicans to surge..
It took the Rockets 15 years to find a franchise player after Hakeem. If not for the trade, we'd be looking at an OKC dynasty tbh.
One game out? Houston has been the 2 seed and always will be...
It's between him and Curry imo....
But...I would give the nod to Harden right now though.
hes been every bit the definition of mvp so far
Leads the league in scoring.
Leads the league in defensive win share, second in defensive efficiency.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...5_leaders.html
Leads the league in clutch time scoring, both pts/36 and advanced efficiency.
http://stats.nba.com/league/player/#...r=1&CF=GP*G*10
http://stats.nba.com/league/player/#...r=1&CF=GP*G*10
He will break down come February..he won't sniff the MVP, tbh..
Harden come back. We made a mistake here in Methlahoma, tbh..
Yeah, i don't know if he can keep up until the end of the season though
Some thug is gonna get tired of his food stamp act and end his season tbh
lol if he wins mvp
lmao westbrick will be fuming...
^ Westbrook is still better.
Kirby is da real MVP. 25-5-5
Pretty sad that Kirby's going to take the place of someone who deserves to be at the All-Star Game this year. For shame.
ESPN will start the media frenzy for Harden soon. No way Kobe makes it as the starter to the all star game this year. Too much ESPN pride involved.
Overreaction thread tbh
How so? In many minds, he's the early favorite for MVP. Not saying he's going to win it, just saying that he's the leader a third of the way through the season. And, the numbers support that.
Curry, Stephen
Of course they do. But the MVP is more than stats. he has kept Rox in a top 2-3 spot in West with Howard, Beverly and Jones all missing significant time. The media will talk about coach K, Asst. coach Dunn (or those youtube video as Simmons suggested) sparking him to commit on that end. The "narrative" for an MVP campaign is key , tbh. Shouldn't be, but is. He also has big national TV games coming up that will add to his stats. You will see the momentum gaining for his campaign ... if he continues his stellar play
BTW, he has been so much better on defense but LOL at those advanced defensive metrics ... what a ty stat if he is leading the league.
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