Media (and society in general) is reliant more than ever on "Big Data" analytics to spoonfeed them what should otherwise be commonsense decisions. I hope Kawhi's comparatively "low" RPM doesn't dissuade voters from giving him a fair shake. Right now it's between LBJ, Westbrook, and Kawhi, the former of which both have "better" metrics.
And yes, this is another veiled criticism of RPM. I think it's an inaccurate stat vis a vis the faith media and fans alike have in it.
Um, what? RPM loves Kawhi's offense enough to make up for the fact that it doesn't care about his D. He's ahead of Harden for example. That won't be the stat that sinks him. On/Off might. But as I've been saying, he will do the most for his candidacy by winning H2H games.
RPM can itself in the ass with a used black dildo.
Last edited by Arcadian; 03-06-2017 at 11:28 PM. Reason: To specify a BLACK dildo
Kawhi is MCP got.
Correction.Kawhi is MVP got.
I agree. But the "metrics" like other players better. Same way the metrics overrate your boy House.
Big Data should be used for every decision ever tbh
Leonard just outplayed Harden in the 4th quarter tonight and made a huge statement to the MVP voters.
Casual fans still digging through "advanced" metrics.
Westbrook isnt winning MVP with the 7th seed.
It's between Bron and Whi
Hey, don't go quoting Shakespeare on us.
How so? MVP voters don't watch the Spurs. No one does ... besides us.
Another reason why the nerds that created "advanced" statistics should stay out of basketball...
They also rate Fathead as an elite defender
I was watching Undisputed today and Shannon Sharpe (who s on the Spurs) said he doesn't bother watching them because they put him to sleep, but he KNOWS Kawhi isn't the MVP
Broussard also contributed with the "system" thing
they will see the espn highlights. Pretty much all Leonard 4th quarter in the highlights.
You used to be my absolute favorite poster, years ago.
I wouldn't miss a post by you...
Then the Lakers and Kobe went into the sewer and you seem like you haven't had the motivation like you used to: to make those awesome skewerings of Kool and anyone else that got in your way... slathered with all kinds of facts and graphs and what-not...
There's the baseball thread, which was okay, but who cares about that?
I really would like to see you get back to your Prime...
No offense, really, but I think many here would agree with me on this.
You were better than you are.
3 of the top 5 players in rpm are CP3, Jimmy Butler, and Nikola Jokic.
i dont think the media is blinding looking at rpm tbh
Real MVP. Other teams are going to be mentally destroyed before they take the crt.
I'm pretty sure that Mid is just trolling by acting like RPM has horribly misjudged Kawhi, and a lot of fans are buying it hook, line and sinker. If you based MVP solely on RPM and record, Kawhi would win.
IDK man, I'm sure Kawhi can rev his Tahoe pretty high but whatever.
Like Chinook said, if any metric is going to sink Kawhi, it's raw on/off numbers. Kawhi pales in comparison to guys like LeBron, Westbrook, and Harden in that aspect. And unfortunately, uninformed people will just run with the narrative that the Spurs are still great without Kawhi on the floor and use that against him...despite anyone knowledgeable knowing damn well this team is an 8th seed getting swept by GS if not for Kawhi, yet with him, they're on pace to win well over 60 games and at least be compe ive in the playoffs.
I really doubt any advanced metric will prevent him from winning it. It's still a narrative driven award. Muh triple-double and muh 30 and 13 are by far the biggest reasons why the media has Westbrook and Harden as frontrunners. Will do a lot for Kawhi's narrative if he can annihilate Westbrook and GS in this next week. He already got Harden today.
This game showed a lot of people what KL is about. People are gushing about this kid right now.
That right there. It's got everything. Kawhi can write his own narrative now, if he can dominate the other contenders, one after another.
Unless the Spurs have a huge meltdown in April, and the Rockets or Cavs pass the Spurs then Kawhi is going to win it.
At some point team record has to take precedence, no?..Spurs (likely) going to blow out the Cavs/Rockets' out of water..we could be talking about a ridiculous 8-9 games difference in the standings in the end..that's no joke.....Lebron is still a better player, but you have to reward a lone All Star leading a team to mid 60-win total the year after their greatest player left the scene..
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