I was waiting for an idiot to post this…. Just because SGA has great teammates, doesn't make him less valuable to the league.. Sure, OKC can win a few games without him- especiall against teams like the Jazz. But, they wouldn't be 23-1 without him and they certainly wouldn't have won a Championship. If SGA missed the rest of the season, OKC would not be making it out of the 2nd round…
So you must be one of the people thinking Kobe should have won over Nash even though he was an 8th seed. Also Jokic and Westbrook are the only MVPs in history that weren’t top 2 seeds. You want MVP for Jokic. Win game’s finish top 2.
No. Jokic, Luka, GIANNIS. I might even put Wemby in front of him, but he's been out for too long to continue to hold the number four spot. If he comes back healthy and plays the rest of the season, I know who I'd pick between the two of them.
It's sad how much SGA doesn't have to deal with the same contact that other stars deal with, because SGA would average 25 instead of 33 if he did. It's incredible watching the Industry conform like a Dragon to give SGA that bubble, black commentators in every city force glaze so hard.
The Entertainment Product is setup where everything is a foul, but what they'll call a foul depends on what the entertainment goal is, refs keep games competitive with this ability to call a foul on anything and players know how to help refs do that by baiting fouls (they bait fouls while off-ball also)…whereas everyone knows that the league has an even different bubble around SGA to make sure he averages 33 points (as they think that averaging 33pts plus a championship is enough to claim MVP for him), they will foul out your team if you try playing him with the same contact other stars get (because then he'd average 25 points) therefore they take the easy route and give him the bubble so he can get his sanctioned 33 points in 36mins.
jamal is averaging 25 ppg atm and won player of the week but yeah yeah nuggets have a trash team compared to thunder skap stop lol like seriously give credit to other players than jokic on nuggets. also no giannis and luka are better than sga hes not second best player!
I agree jokic is the best player in the world, but i will say that when your talking about their on off numbers, thats likely HEAVILY skewed by the replacement off the bench for either player. for example when SGA goes off, someone like Alex Caruso comes on, whos obviously a better defender than SGA, However when Jokic comes off he has Jonas replacing him, who is just an average defender at best. Point is the numbers are skewed by the quality of replacement, and since the thunder have FAR better defensive replacements for SGA than the nuggets do for jokic, its going to look like Jokic contributes more to the defence when he's on the floor. It still very well might be the case that Jokic is a better all around defensive player than SGA, because centers are much more important to defences than guards, however, using on/offs wont tell the full story
Even with the Bubble that the league gives SGA, SGA's still not able to make it look like he's valuable to his team (his team is amazing without him as shown here by Skap). Just another role player doing the 30 point offensive role, but even with a bubble. Snowbunny heaven.
OKC team is so good (and SGA ain't that good) that SGA gets scored on more than his bench does (3 points more)….HA HA HA, thanks. SGA, you have to get that more even like Jokic can by letting in only 1 point more than his bench does for a supposedly bad defender, your starters are good enough and apparently so are you.
Eazy, thunders hidden mvp is sam presti rather than the best player(aga) on the team while jokic is the real mvp in both team and the whole league. Especially with the past two years booth era…..
Okc is more dangerous then a super team because they have stacked team with players with no ego hungry and very present in team and they have 2 firs round pik in the next year draft who is stacked with super star potential players
I know there’s always some inverse correlation but the Thunder have played a cupcake schedule…they actually are last in strength of schedule, they have like 1 marquee win against the lakers who themselves are a bit of a statistical anomaly in terms of advanced stats vs their record
Did you forget to mention that Utah sat their best player? Lauri Markkanen sat out that game.
In his 23 games played this season, Shai has got to play zero minutes with his starting 5 on the floor. Lots of key injuries for the Thunder, this year.
If the rest of your team is playing crappy, that shouldn't boost your chances at the MVP award. Shai has sat out half of his 4th quarters because he was helping his team get blowout wins. If he wanted to have Jokic's stats, he could easily have them. He could easily be averaging 40+ points per game if that was his goal. But his goal is to have his team best-positioned for a championship with real gametime experience and Home Court Advantage throughout.
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Jokic isn't MVP he's a playoff choker!! Stop crying bro you sound like a baby!
LMAO look at all these losers in the comments. SGA is winning a championship again and clearly Thunder are so much better than Jokic and Nuggets 😂
SGA IS PRAVI-MVP😂⚡️🤙🤘🍻🤣😂
OKC Owns Nuggets. It’s not even close. Jokic fans all know OKC is way more talented and better than Jokic and Luka teams
Best player on a runaway dominant team is ALWAYS MVP. We’re more changing the standard for Jokic
Imagine thunder getting jokic😅
I was waiting for an idiot to post this…. Just because SGA has great teammates, doesn't make him less valuable to the league.. Sure, OKC can win a few games without him- especiall against teams like the Jazz. But, they wouldn't be 23-1 without him and they certainly wouldn't have won a Championship. If SGA missed the rest of the season, OKC would not be making it out of the 2nd round…
If only Skap mentioned how the exact same thing is going on in gs RN. How sad
I'm pretty sure denver beat the rockets last season without jokic.
And OKC will stay loaded for the next few years, all thanks to the Clippers and Podcast Paul George.
So you must be one of the people thinking Kobe should have won over Nash even though he was an 8th seed. Also Jokic and Westbrook are the only MVPs in history that weren’t top 2 seeds. You want MVP for Jokic. Win game’s finish top 2.
"Undeniably a top 3 player league wide"
No. Jokic, Luka, GIANNIS. I might even put Wemby in front of him, but he's been out for too long to continue to hold the number four spot. If he comes back healthy and plays the rest of the season, I know who I'd pick between the two of them.
Best player on the best team wins the MVP. Sorry Jokic fanboys.
This is what happens when you trade Paul George and others for the entire future of basketball.
It's sad how much SGA doesn't have to deal with the same contact that other stars deal with, because SGA would average 25 instead of 33 if he did. It's incredible watching the Industry conform like a Dragon to give SGA that bubble, black commentators in every city force glaze so hard.
It’s the jazz 😒. They didn’t even tried and plat defense
The Entertainment Product is setup where everything is a foul, but what they'll call a foul depends on what the entertainment goal is, refs keep games competitive with this ability to call a foul on anything and players know how to help refs do that by baiting fouls (they bait fouls while off-ball also)…whereas everyone knows that the league has an even different bubble around SGA to make sure he averages 33 points (as they think that averaging 33pts plus a championship is enough to claim MVP for him), they will foul out your team if you try playing him with the same contact other stars get (because then he'd average 25 points) therefore they take the easy route and give him the bubble so he can get his sanctioned 33 points in 36mins.
jamal is averaging 25 ppg atm and won player of the week but yeah yeah nuggets have a trash team compared to thunder skap stop lol like seriously give credit to other players than jokic on nuggets. also no giannis and luka are better than sga hes not second best player!
I agree jokic is the best player in the world, but i will say that when your talking about their on off numbers, thats likely HEAVILY skewed by the replacement off the bench for either player. for example when SGA goes off, someone like Alex Caruso comes on, whos obviously a better defender than SGA, However when Jokic comes off he has Jonas replacing him, who is just an average defender at best. Point is the numbers are skewed by the quality of replacement, and since the thunder have FAR better defensive replacements for SGA than the nuggets do for jokic, its going to look like Jokic contributes more to the defence when he's on the floor. It still very well might be the case that Jokic is a better all around defensive player than SGA, because centers are much more important to defences than guards, however, using on/offs wont tell the full story
Even with the Bubble that the league gives SGA, SGA's still not able to make it look like he's valuable to his team (his team is amazing without him as shown here by Skap). Just another role player doing the 30 point offensive role, but even with a bubble. Snowbunny heaven.
OKC team is so good (and SGA ain't that good) that SGA gets scored on more than his bench does (3 points more)….HA HA HA, thanks. SGA, you have to get that more even like Jokic can by letting in only 1 point more than his bench does for a supposedly bad defender, your starters are good enough and apparently so are you.
SHAI IS SHOOINTG 67% FROM 3PT LINE last 10 games. jokic is not winning if shai continues to be 40%+ he's literally better than last year
Eazy, thunders hidden mvp is sam presti rather than the best player(aga) on the team while jokic is the real mvp in both team and the whole league. Especially with the past two years booth era…..
Sga winning the mvp to begin with was a disgrace.
Sga ia awesome, but joker is better and was mvp last year
Okc is more dangerous then a super team because they have stacked team with players with no ego hungry and very present in team and they have 2 firs round pik in the next year draft who is stacked with super star potential players
Okay, people just can’t handle it. That OKC and SGA is too good for youse.MVP😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SGA is the OKC GOAT!!!
Sounds upset that OKC just knows how to build a team in a small market
SGA is literally the heavy favourite to go back to back MVP
I know there’s always some inverse correlation but the Thunder have played a cupcake schedule…they actually are last in strength of schedule, they have like 1 marquee win against the lakers who themselves are a bit of a statistical anomaly in terms of advanced stats vs their record
10/10 no notes
Sga is MVP 😂😂
Did you forget to mention that Utah sat their best player? Lauri Markkanen sat out that game.
In his 23 games played this season, Shai has got to play zero minutes with his starting 5 on the floor. Lots of key injuries for the Thunder, this year.
If the rest of your team is playing crappy, that shouldn't boost your chances at the MVP award. Shai has sat out half of his 4th quarters because he was helping his team get blowout wins. If he wanted to have Jokic's stats, he could easily have them. He could easily be averaging 40+ points per game if that was his goal. But his goal is to have his team best-positioned for a championship with real gametime experience and Home Court Advantage throughout.
Your reasoning skill is Joker level, fr
This is why I don’t see Houston beating them in the WCF.