Chad Feldheimer said:
Luol Deng has played better than Wade in the ECF. Wade is shooting under 40%. The Heat put LeBron on Rose and he can't do anything.
I will repeat this only one more time. MVP is about the regular season, not the ECF or
WCF. Do you just dont get it or pretend not to get it?
So this is a team award now? Most Valuable Team? Why not just call it the best player on the best team award. Heat had a slow start but since have been better than the Bulls.
what made you think that I even implied that it was a team award?
I said without Lebron, Heat still had Wade(who averaged 25 pph himself in the regular season) and Bosh. Without Rose (and Noah missing a chunk of games) you just had Loozer and Deng-good enough to win 40-43 games at best.
I see that you have conveniently ignored the presence of Wade. There is NO ONE on the Bulls team except Rose, who is remotely as good as Wade was in the regular season this year. 25 freaking PPG, are you kidding me? Wade is a superstar who already has a ring without Lebron's help. And without Lebron Heat might have even got to a faster start because of the lack of chemistry issues, even if their record might have not have been the same eventually.
They went from 61-21 to 19-63 with pretty much the same team minus LeBron. 42 games worse! He should have been the MVP by default for that stat alone.
Are you an idiot? We are talking about this year, not last year. He might have been the MVP for Cavs but he has a superstar and an all star next to him in Miami. It is debatable whether he was even the Heat's MVP leave alone being the league MVP
So you can't argue why Rose is better just that because his team had the best record he should have won. Ok gotcha. Why wasn't Tim Duncan in the running then? Or Ginobili?
Duncan? LOL. He was being rested the entire year for the playoffs. The Spurs did it as a team. Duncan averaged 13 ppg on 28 mins. MVP all right.
MVP isnt given to who YOU think is the best player. It is given to the player who was the most critical for his team's success in the regular season. And success generally means a top 4 record. And without that player the team has a huge dropoff.
It is pretty simple actually. The Bulls have a bigger dropoff without Rose than the Heat have without Lebron. Noah was injured, the Chicago Jazz group all have huge flaws in their game and Deng is just a very good role player, not even an all star.