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at last ! well deserved
According to Manu:
"se define la votación del mejor 6to hombre y ya lo dije otras veces: no me preocupa ni desespera ganarlo; tampoco será un gran halago, en principio porque, aunque lo soy, no me siento un sexto hombre."
Manu is not a Six Man. Period.
at last ! well deserved
Now he needs to add a NBA Finals MVP trophy to his showcase.
Well deserved, Manu. Now go get the real trophies
Well deserved, Manu. Now go get the real trophies
when will the rest of the awards be announced?
MVP, DPOY, All NBA teams, ROTY, and COTY, stuff like that.
i have a strong feeling bowen will win DPOY..
But is he Hispanic?
Congrats, anyway.
According to logic and common sense.
Nice. I'm glad he got it even if he wasn't thrilled with it. Recognition for a job well done. For being willing to come off the bench when we all know he's a starter. He's a winner, in all catagories.
Logic and common sense says: A player is qualified to be a sixth-man award winner if he comes off the bench more than he starts. Manu is clearly above sixth-man level, but he qualifies. Are they going to overlook him again just because the others are way below his level?
Congrats Manu
Kevin McHale
Antawn Jamison
Ben Gordon
All 3 of those guys have won the award in the past and were clearly not just the 6th best player on their own teams. I don't see, in any meaningful way, how this argument that Ginobili's status as a star should somehow deprive him of the opportunity to win the award that has rarely, if ever, truly gone to a guy who was just the 6th best player on his own team.
There was a long thread dedicated to this, but I think, if nothing else, Manu deserves this award for embodying the very prinicples of teamwork and selflessness that 6th men are supposed to be about. Few players with star-level games in the current NBA would willingly accept a role coming off the bench for the betterment of their teams. Manu clearly has done that and should be acknowledged for that so that history will remember that ethic. I buy the argument that he shouldn't win it every year, even though he probably could. I don't buy the argument that he should never win the award, though.
And, more importantly, he changes the game like nobody else who comes off the bench in the majority of his team's games -- that's the criteria for winning the award and he's been deservingly selected as this year's recipient.
If the criteria used to decide who is and who is not a 6th man is well defined (come off the bench in more games that starting), then there is little room for discussion regarding if he dersves or not the award.
I'm quite happy he got it though, because the chances of him getting any other award (except maybe MVP finals if he the Spurs get there and if he plays brilliantly the finals) are very slim.
Written criteria > logic and common sense
Congrats! I wonder when they give him his trophy....
So were a lot of people on this list (At least in one point in their careers). McHale, Schrempf, Starks, Jamison could have been/were serviceable starters.Nice, but we all know Manu is a starter that comes off the bench... he's not a sixth man in my book
Come on now! We all know that Manu coming off the bench is Pop's invention, that's what logic and common sense says! so, for some of you Manu is the man after Finley or Oberto? I guess not...
But hey, it's not like I have a problem with it, I'm happy for him, he deserves some recognition, but I guess he doesn't like the idea of being considered a sixth man... Idk it's just what I think.
Carina gets it.
Thanks
Dominique Wilkins led the Spurs in scoring in 96-97 with 18.2 points in a 6th man role but he didn't win the award. John Starks did.
I think Ricky Pierce led the Bucks in scoring the year he won it.
How in the name of Christ did you get to that conclusion . . . ???????
I'm happy for Manu. I know he is no bench player, but I am glad he received some kind of award for recognizing the sacrifice he has made coming off the bench. No other superstar would handle it the way Manu has. I am so happy he is on the Spurs and puts team before anything. Congrats Manu! I know you deserve it, but you are also alot better than a "6th man" Go out and get the real trophies and get the Finals MVP.
McDonald chimes in.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...onald_g_9.html
Jeff McDonald: Ginobili named MVP*
* -- among Sixth Men.
Manu Ginobili can add another trophy to his mantel. The Spurs guard has been named the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year, in a vote of sportswriters who cover the league.
It wasn't even close.
Ginobili received 615 of 620 possible points in the voting, including 123 of 124 possible first-place votes. (Doing the math here, it appears that whomever did not vote Ginobili No. 1 actually didn't list him on the ballot at all).
Coming off the bench in 51 of 74 games this season, Ginobili averaged a career-high 19.5 points to lead the Spurs. He is the first Sixth Man of the Year winner to pace his team in scoring since Ricky Pierce did it for Milwaukee in 1990.
There was an interesting typo on the official NBA press release announcing the award, which at one point mistakenly mentions Ginobili just won the league MVP award, not the Sixth Man award. Kobe Bryant would probably argue. Spurs fans would not.
Ginobili will receive his new bauble in a press conference after this morning's practice. We're sure it will occupy an esteemed place in his personal trophy case next to his three NBA championship rings and Olympic gold medal.
He actually won the award twice, but he did lead his team in scoring the second time he won it. In fact, he scored 8 ppg more than the next highest scorer on the team.
A complete blowout. They got it right this time, Manu deserved it.
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Congrats Manu.
Now, go ape in the rest of the PO's and garner a Finals MVP.
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