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Good for him , he deserved it.
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns...aaward-CR.html
No surprise: Barbosa is 6th Man
Paul Coro
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 23, 2007 10:57 AM
Suns guard Leandro Barbosa was selected as the winner of this season's NBA Sixth Man Award, which he will receive this afternoon.
Barbosa posted career highs with averages of 18.1 points, 4.0 assists and 1.2 steals this season. Like his speed on the court, Barbosa has shown rapid growth to turn into a primary scorer. He led the Suns in scoring in 10 of their final 22 regular-season games and again in Game 1 of the playoffs Sunday, when he scored 26, including 15 straight Suns points, to rally Phoenix to victory.
Barbosa scored at least 20 points in 33 regular season games, including four 30-point games. He ranked fifth in the league with 190 made three-pointers, hitting the shot at a 43.4 percent clip to rank seventh in the league.
Barbosa is the fourth Suns player to win the Sixth Man Award in its 25-year history. Rodney Rogers was the last to win it for the 1999-2000 season. Danny Manning won for the 1997-98 season and Eddie Johnson won for the 1988-89 season.
Barbosa came off the bench in 60 of his 80 appearances this season. As a reserve, he averaged 17.6 points and shot 48.8 percent from the field.
Barbosa was expected to win the award easily this season with San Antonio's Manu Ginobili, Dallas' Jerry Stackhouse and New York's David Lee considered his main compe ion.
Good for him , he deserved it.
Deserved.
Heck, the Lakers looked like they were going to beat the SUns until Barbosa caught fire in the 2nd half.
yah the lakers had it, until kobe just went ice cold
Barbosa was the obvious choice this year (tho what this is doing in the Spurs forum instead of the NBA forum is beyond me). Congrats.
obviously
He'd probably start on 29 other teams.
Here are the voting results for the top five. I'm surprised Ginobili came in second, I would have put Stack there given that he was a sixth man all season:
Code:Leandro Barbosa 101-24-1 578 Manu Ginobili 18-50-29 269 Jerry Stackhouse 7-40-55 210 David Lee (Knicks) 0-3-13 22 Kyle Korver (76ers) 1-2-8 19
amazing he got that many....
Someone gave Korver a first place vote?
Ok. It's Scoop Jackson-hunting time. This has got to stop.
Korver's on the bench now?
I don't buy that Barbosa was the obvious choice for this award. Ginobili was eligible and he's a much, much better player. Barbosa is a product of a run and gun system and plays as many minutes as Tony Parker.
Per minute, Manu averaged more points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks and scored more points per shot. How exactly does Barbosa deserve this award more than Manu?
The most bogus reasoning I've heard (and I've heard it a lot) is that Manu shouldn't get it because he's not really a sixth man. WTF is that supposed to mean? He is as much of a sixth man and probably even moreso than Barbosa.
Barbosa is the one who plays starters minutes. Barbosa plays in a system that allowed someone like Quentin Richardson to break NBA records. Barbosa plays next to a two-time reigning MVP in the backcourt, with two All-Star in the front court and the reigning Most Improved Player.
No coach in the league would rather have Barbosa over Manu. Manu was robbed of this award.
hopefully manu is ticked and play much better on the court
Barbosa had a higher scoring average. The media votes on the award. QED.
timvp I love it when you get angry.
No shocker.
How many times do we see the league's leading shotblocker win DPOY? It's all about the #s, for they provide sportswriters an easy out to ranking the top players in a particular category. The 6th Man award generally seems to go to the player with the highest scoring avg. DPOY usually goes to a big with a high blocks per game avg. Awards like Rookie of the Year and MVP do seem to be influenced by a player's total game, but I'd say scoring average and a fair amount of groupthink decide those awards.
Put Manu on the Suns and he'd probably be getting more minutes and averaging at least 21 ppg.
I don't know about more minutes because Manu isn't built to play many more minutes than he's playing already, but his regular season stats would be crazy good playing in the Barbosa role.
stop overrating Manu. He isn't that great. He has taken a step back this year. It's highly debatable if he is better than barbosa.
There's not one team in the league that would take Barbosa over Manu. Most would laugh at the question.
Manu is the kind of player that gets better as the years go by.Most teams would hire him at the age of 35 or 36 only to play in the last mins of the 4rd.quarter to hit a game winner.
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