Yea the bet is still on, but like I said we're not doing ROY and MVP of regular season, those are too easy, it's pretty obvious gonna be LeBron and Lillard.
So this is what it is right now
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Originally Posted by G-spec
6th Man - Eric Bledsoe
Most Improved - D'Andre Jordan
DPOY - Serge Ibaka
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Originally Posted by jonwon
6th Man - Ryan Anderson
Most Improved - OJ Mayo
DPOY - Serge Ibaka
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Originally Posted by bballguy
6th Man - Jamal Crawford
Most Improved - OJ Mayo
DPOY - Dwight Howard
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So my opinion from what I see so far with these picks, Dwight Howard is not winning DPOY this year for obvious reasons, I do like how Jon followed me in picking Ibaka though cuz he's winning it.
Jamal Crawford was on a tear so far in the season, but the recent Clippers losing streak is due to other teams adjusting to the Clippers and their most recent opponents have managed to slow him down significantly, so he's been struggling but he'll adjust. I think he'll be on and off the rest of the season for this exact reason.
Ryan Anderson is on a team that has Anthony Davis, Austin Rivers and Eric Gordon, this is their future, this is who that team is trying to mold this is where they want to see the ball 99% of the time. I see absolutely no way Anderson will get anything other than the same type of leftover buckets he used to get in Orlando when guys would kick and dish, basically spot up shooting. You can't win most improved on spot up shooting.
OJ Mayo is doing well now, averaging close to 20 a game, big reason is because he's playing the most minutes on the team. They give him lots of minutes because they need scoring right now, but when Dirk gets back, the offense will run through him so OJ's buckets will drop to probably just over 10 a game and other than scoring, he does literally shit all, assists ? they got Collison and Beubois for that.
I'm tempted to say that OJ will continue to be getting lots of touches when Dirk gets back because you would think they wanna build for the future, but Dirk is still the man there and holds way too much sway for anything less than him being THE team until he retires.
I'm with you on the Mayo thing though, I wish they would realize Dirk's time is done unfortunately and they should focus on Mayo, Collison and Roddy, because that's their future. But this season the two guys that the offense will pretty much go through is Nowitzki and Kaman.