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Iggy or Curry? Who should have won MVP?

carolinajazz

carolinajazz

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Considering there's nothing more to discuss in connection with the 2015 NBA season, who agrees with Iggy getting the MVP over Curry in the Finals? Iggy missed 18 free throws (10-28) for the series, Curry 23-26! Iggy averaged 16 points per game, Curry 26! But the determining factors were these 3 outstanding stats by Iggy: 24 assists and only 6 turnovers! Curry had 38 assists but also have 28 turnovers! Iggy shot 52% from the field while Curry shot 44%. Iggy shot 40% from 3 point land, Curry 38%. Interestingly, the rebounding edge was mind boggling! Iggy 35 total rebounds while Curry had 31 rebounds! Over all, Curry had 2 bad games in the Finals, Iggy?......didn't have a bad game! Although he did shoot 2-11 from the free-throw line in game 5, he also had 7 assists with NO turnovers! Your thoughts?
 
I'm fine with either. LBJ lost should not even have been eligible to receive votes. MVP = Most Valuable Player not best player. If you lost your value was negated.
 
I think that in today's game, you have to give it to someone on the winning team. You can't give it to a player on the losing team.

So on the winning team...

Its so easily Curry.

Curry had a couple bad games, and by bad games I mean for his standards. He still managed to average 26 ppg. He was the most feared man on the court. Cleveland was throwing everything at him and all their focus was to stop Curry. That's why it looked so easy for Iggy.

Cmon now.. If Cleveland could do the finals over wit Golden State, and they had a chance to take one player off Golden State, do you actually think they would say Andre Iguodala? No, they would say Curry. We all know that. That's THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Giving it to Iggy over Curry is just plain stupid.
 
Hack said:
I think that in today's game, you have to give it to someone on the winning team. You can't give it to a player on the losing team.

So on the winning team...

Its so easily Curry.

Curry had a couple bad games, and by bad games I mean for his standards. He still managed to average 26 ppg. He was the most feared man on the court. Cleveland was throwing everything at him and all their focus was to stop Curry. That's why it looked so easy for Iggy.

Cmon now.. If Cleveland could do the finals over wit Golden State, and they had a chance to take one player off Golden State, do you actually think they would say Andre Iguodala? No, they would say Curry. We all know that. That's THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Giving it to Iggy over Curry is just plain stupid.
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While I agree with a lot of this. I don't have a problem with Iggy winning it because his defense on Lebron was great. And him entering the starting lineup changed this series. I personally would have voted for Curry. But I have little problem with Iggy winning it.
 
A player on a losing team has already won the finals MVP once, so there is precedent. And if you really mean most VALUABLE player to their team, then it would have to be LBJ. You could arguably have swapped out Iggy and still got the wins.
 
gregbroncs said:
While I agree with a lot of this. I don't have a problem with Iggy winning it because his defense on Lebron was great. And him entering the starting lineup changed this series. I personally would have voted for Curry. But I have little problem with Iggy winning it.
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I also think Iguodala's overall effect in the last three games made a big impact in Curry's being able to get himself on track because he sure seemed somewhat rattled the first three games. And it impacted not just Curry, since Iggy made all his teammates more efficient.
 
LogGrad98 said:
A player on a losing team has already won the finals MVP once, so there is precedent. And if you really mean most VALUABLE player to their team, then it would have to be LBJ. You could arguably have swapped out Iggy and still got the wins.
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There is a reason it has only been done once. They realized that they were wrong, and have never repeated the mistake. The MVP of the finals is not the MVP for their team. But the MVP of the series, which should go to a guy who actually won the series.
 
Cy said:
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Iggy was great, played good defense on LeBron; played a really solid, fundamentally sound Finals series and produced, quite frankly, eye-popping numbers from a scoring standpoint in two of the games. To give him the MVP trophy over Curry is asinine. How much effort and game planning was designed to slow down IGGY or prevent him from destroying the Cleveland defense? Iggy was the beneficiary of a defense planned, executed, and designed to slow Curry, and only Curry. I've watched basketball for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've ever seen someone shoot that many threes with no one in the same county. Granted, he did hit a couple of tough shots over the course of the series, but mostly he had layups/dunks, and open threes. Lebron produced great overall numbers, but anyone that controls the ball like he did, should. He was extremely inefficient, and in many instances his defense/effort was deplorable. CURRY should have been the MVP.
 
No one would have been surprised if Curry would have won the MVP. Some were surprised that Iggy got the award. EVERYONE would have been surprised if Lebron would have won the thing!
 
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Iggy gets the edge because he was the only guy who could guard LeBron, and he did a fantastic job. Just look at LeBron's shooting percentage.
 
LeBron is the only player EVER to lead both teams in PPG, RPG, and APG.

Iggy is one of if not the weakest Finals MVP's in the past 30 years.

If you have to give it to the winning team, give it to Steph.

They should just rename the award to, dude who can guard LeBron better than anyone on the team and they won.
 
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