will post mine later but
http://espn.go.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/12694593/espn-insider-tom-haberstroh-shares-2014-15-awards-ballot-nbahttp://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-awards-ballot-part-2-putting-in-a-team-effort/http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-awards-ballot-part-1-in-praise-of-the-individual/
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
feel like grantland crew got it right m/l
not sure about COY tho. pop deserves it but will the league give it to him again or go for a fresh face idk
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
i think kerr's a lock for coy. gsw gonna grab mvp, dpoy, & coy, nice haul.
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
or none of them who knows
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
has any coach ever won COTY their first year?
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
i am trying to google to answer yr question and it is really hard to find
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
on phone/zing so could be reading wiki wrong but seems like there hasn't been. and if Kerr got it there wouldn't be many arguments against it, which is awesome.
first google news result when I search "NBA coach of the year" is a USA today piece that sez brad stevens should be coach of the year tho
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
it looks like avery johnson did w/ the mavs in 05-06 actually xp
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
Looks like the first ever COTY is your answer.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
also rick carlisle in 01-02 w/ the pistons, though both had been assistants for years before taking the helm
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
doc rivers won his first year
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
Harry Gallatin won his first year, and won the first ever COTY.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
larry legend won his first year too, so i guess it's not really uncommon at all.
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
@MrMichaelLeeLeBron James on his choice for MVP: "Kevin Love."
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
dang, I figured if it was anyone it would've been riles but he didn't till 1990.
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah first year coaches winning coty isn't that surprising considering the formula is generally 'this team was better than we thought they would be' and an upgrade in coach in coach is the easiest way to quickly improve a team and a first year guy is gonna be the least known quantity = surprising success.
― balls, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
DPOY: GobertROY: WigginsMVP: CurryCOY: Kidd
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
MIP: Whiteside, obviously.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:14 (eight years ago) link
Whiteside's season deserves more hype imo
yeah very cool story.
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:22 (eight years ago) link
DPOY: GobertROY: WigginsMVP: CurryCOY: Kidd --Matt Armstrong
#gobertthirst so real damn
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:29 (eight years ago) link
idk defensively you should maybe scare people places aside from the rim and 3 feet outside of it to be defensively well rounded so that kinda screws gobert, wingspan be damned
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
Mutombo won DPOY 4 times
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link
I guess people didn't care about well roundedness back then
It's weird how when the Jazz put Gobert in the starting lineup they instantly became an elite defensive team despite that lack of rounding
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
lol that was a complete bait post & it still worked, obv gobert is pretty good I just think he's a bit overrated & also the jazz are enough of a slog to watch to qualify as bergman outtakes somehow transformed into sport
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:43 (eight years ago) link
idk id rather a glorious crazy person like draymond or a transformative talent like kawhi or even timmy for what he maintains at his age get it than a curio big man with obvious limitations mostly notable for being fawned over by people who think the big man era is still a thing
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:48 (eight years ago) link
the best team in the league starts bogut
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:51 (eight years ago) link
who is also a good DPOY pick (much better than Draymond who is actually overrated unlike Gobert)
I like bogut! he'd be fine as well as a traditional v creative big man defender
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
fine for that award I mean obviously he's great regardless of such criteria
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:53 (eight years ago) link
but the big men era is over, might want to rethink your position
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:55 (eight years ago) link
yr literalism is cute & I'm sure it was pretty clear what I meant but good try tho
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
you said the best rim protector in the league is mostly notable for being liked by people online
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
Zach Lowe has Gobert fourth in his DPOY rankings, does that put him in the cult
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:58 (eight years ago) link
well to take literalism to a sadistic extreme...the notice of his defensive stats is largely online aside from the errant block or dunk making its way into mainstream highlight reels
which fwiw is fine, it's mostly amusing that the hint of a slight on gobert had such a predictable result
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:00 (eight years ago) link
shotblocking defensive specialist centers don't make highlight reels, it's true, they win DPOY a lot tho
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:07 (eight years ago) link
being well rounded ain't all that. Shaq wasn't well rounded on offense or defense and he was pretty good.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:09 (eight years ago) link
you asked me to support an initial point (gobert's attention mostly being internet hoops lovers like us) and I did, I then added a qualifier saying that such a thing was not inherently bad by any means, I just am not as impressed by his shit as many seem to be & you are either deliberately ignoring that or trolling
then again that's exactly how he convo between you and lagoon over thabo went so what was I expecting
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:14 (eight years ago) link
no you said he was mostly notable for having some online fans, but in reality he's mostly notable for being the league's top shotblocker. like for example if you were to google him, that's the info that would come up, not "Gobert a big deal with nerds"
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
otoh I was at least half trolling when I went on this anti-gobert tear (or more accurately A Tear On Gobert That Is Not Completely Laudatory And Mildly Critical and that is prob the same thing for you matt) so it serves me right I suppose
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
lol it's more than mildly critical
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:20 (eight years ago) link
"curio big man with obvious limitations mostly notable for being fawned over by people who think the big man era is still a thing"
gobert will win multiple dpoy awards imo
― Clay, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link
is kawhi not a likely candidate for dpoy?
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:23 (eight years ago) link
Missed some games
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
he's a candidate but missed a lot of time and kinda played the first half of the season in a low gear xp
― Clay, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
when do they announce this stuff? if it's mid-playoff i could see him putting together a few games that could sway people over
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:26 (eight years ago) link
nah all this shit is voted on already
― balls, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
votes due tomorrow I think xp
― Clay, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:28 (eight years ago) link
Yeah firing Jax and not trading for love were two pretty tough choices
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Friday, 1 May 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
curry got that mvp
― Clay, Monday, 4 May 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
the hoops gods have smiled upon us this day
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 4 May 2015 00:30 (eight years ago) link
!!!!
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Monday, 4 May 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
More glad that Harden didn't win tbh, I don't want to hate that dude as much as I do
― tsrobodo, Monday, 4 May 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
he's #2 surely, interested in seeing the totals as curry mvp seemed a sure thing by the end of the season
― balls, Monday, 4 May 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
I'd guess it's near-unanimous curry as no 1 outside of local guys voting for harden and wb and lebron. That run curry had sit the end of the season was impossible to ignore.
― Clay, Monday, 4 May 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
grats steph, cool player, amazing season
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link
Player / Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th TOTAL
Stephen Curry, Golden State 100 26 3 — 1 1,198James Harden, Houston 25 87 13 4 — 936LeBron James, Cleveland 5 12 62 32 12 552Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City — 5 33 41 29 352Anthony Davis, New Orleans — — 9 35 53 203Chris Paul, L.A. Clippers — — 10 15 29 124LaMarcus Aldridge, Portland — — — 1 3 6Marc Gasol, Memphis — — — 1 — 3Blake Griffin, L.A. Clippers — — — 1 — 3Tim Duncan, San Antonio — — — — 1 1Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio — — — — 1 1Klay Thompson, Golden State — — — — 1 1
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 4 May 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
lol how did we ever think curry vs harden would be a close race for first
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 4 May 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
seventh place is sort of interesting since the top six seemed relatively in stone. was aldridge the best of the rest?
― polyphonic, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
played well through injury, so probably got some admiring the sacrifice votes, but that's 1 5th place and 3 6th place votes most of which are prob homers. I'd have voted gasol 6th personally.
― Clay, Monday, 4 May 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
*I'm sorry those are 4th and 5th place not 5th and 6th.
not a single first or second place vote for cp3 or brow get a brain morans
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
17 players received votes last year, 12 this year. As contested as this race was, it was much tighter at the top than in the middle.
― Clay, Monday, 4 May 2015 22:51 (eight years ago) link
http://ak-static.cms.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/04/Kia-2014-15-MVP-Voting-Ballot-Results.pdf
― Clay, Monday, 4 May 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/904d02b38876bf1748bf3089228eac1ecd06b659/c=259-0-2924-2004&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2015/05/04/USATODAY/USATODAY/635663584888991719-USP-NBA-STEPHEN-CURRY-MVP-PRESS-CONFERENCE-72803918.JPG
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
not feeling his haircut
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
lol steph his whole persona is unbelievable for an elite athlete, respect
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/2a/2af1a849879b29bf0781d50e0e506630b3f50d66e8faec87e4087269ed9d4f00.jpg
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Jimmy Butler MIP
― #wegonnabechampionship (Spottie), Thursday, 7 May 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
More crowds should chant MIP when players are shooting free throws
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Friday, 8 May 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
FIRST TEAM ALL-DEFENSE (2015, literally)
Tony AllenDraymond GreenDeAndre JordanKawhi LeonardChris Paul
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/07/sports/grizzlies3/grizzlies3-articleLarge.jpg
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
2nd team: boaguts, brow, timmy, jimmy buckets, john wall
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
p good lists dray over brow is a joke tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
brow definitely belongs on the first team but idk if i'd cut draymond to slot him there...would honestly cut deandre instead, put him on 2nd team
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
gasol, duncan and ad should all be over dj imo
― micah, Thursday, 21 May 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 3:21 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lol u hate draymond
― juice college (agent hibachi), Thursday, 21 May 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
just imagine what the dubs d wld look like w those two switched cmon!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 May 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
agree that dj is unworthy too tho
he is just a stooge
― micah, Thursday, 21 May 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 9:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Don't do that to me man I just almost passed out
― juice college (agent hibachi), Thursday, 21 May 2015 11:24 (eight years ago) link
ALL-NBA TEAMS:
1ST: steph, harden, bron, brow, marc gasol2ND: juiceman, cp3, lamarcus, pau, boogie3RD: kyrie, klay, blake, timmy, deandre
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
good all-NBA squads. DAJ kind of lucked out that there are no good 2-way centers tho
― k3vin k., Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
i cld quibble but yr those r p solid
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
pau kinda riding his rep a bit but whatever
― Clay, Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Swingman down
― tsrobodo, Thursday, 21 May 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
pau led the league in dubdubs
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 21 May 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
― k3vin k., Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
DeAndre is a good 2 way center, as are the two guys above him.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 21 May 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:37 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
horrible defense tho
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 21 May 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
would mostly just rather have butler on the third team than pau on the second
― Clay, Thursday, 21 May 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
Gobert should have been above Bogut on all defense but whatever, they'll come around next year.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 21 May 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
they both should have been above DeAndre but he played more minutes and voters care about that
awards are always a lagging indicator at best
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 May 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Gobert should have been above Bogut on all defense but whatever, they'll come around next year. --Matt Armstrong
pvmic
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 21 May 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
only one all-nba player didn't make the playoffs this year (cousins), agree it's a lagging indicator at best
― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2015 05:47 (eight years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well i meant other than those guys. in 5 years we'll probably look back and see him as a pretty uninspired choice. it's just dumb that there are probably 5 more forwards who deserve this recognition before DAJ or any other center
― k3vin k., Friday, 22 May 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
All-NBA teams were announced. 4 of the 5 players on the 1st team, and 4 of the 5 players on the 2nd team, and 4 of the 5 players on the 3rd team play in the Western Conference.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 May 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
ha damn
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 May 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link