Awards/Prediction thread

by Mike Prada on Apr 15, 2008 3:07 PM EDT

An attempt to stall from a Pacers recap, moving all the sidebar stuff to the new site, and the playoff preview post.

Who would you guys choose for the following awards?

MVP:
Rookie of the Year:
Coach of the Year:
Defensive Player of the Year:
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year:
Most Improved Player:
Glue Guy Award (to the guy who's stats and press don't accurately account his impact:

Also, predict the East playoffs in this space (because the West isn't sorted out yet).

Celtics/Hawks:
Pistons/Sixers:
Magic/Raptors:
Cavs/Wiz:

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Picks

MVP: Paul
Rookie: Durant
Coach: Adelman
Defensive: Garnett
Sixth Man: Barbosa
Most Improved: Turkoglu
Glue Guy: Tayshaun Prince

East Playoffs:
Celtics in 4
Pistons in 5
Magic in 5
Wizards in 6

Celtics in 5
Pistons in 7

Celtics in 7

Predicting how this squad is going to perform is like trying to solve trig problems with pen and paper. -sierradave.

by Mike Prada on Apr 15, 2008 3:21 PM EDT reply actions

Picks

MVP: Garnett
Rookie of the Year: Durant
Coach of the Year: Byron Scott
Defensive Player of the Year: Garnett
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: No idea
Most Improved Player: Dunleavy (really)
Glue Guy Award: Deshawn

Celtics in 4
Pistons in 6 (I always underestimate Detroit)
Magic in 4
Wizards in 6

Celtics in 6
Pistons in 6

Celtics in 6

by hotplate on Apr 15, 2008 4:32 PM EDT reply actions

Picks

MVP- Chris Paul
Rookie - Al Horford
Coach - Eddie Jordan (I just had to)
Defensive Player - KG
Non Ginobli 6th man - Barbosa
Most Improved player - Rudy Gay
Glue guy - not really sure. I don't know enough about all of the teams in the league but I will say Raja Bell.

Celtics in 4
Pistons in 6
Magic in 5
Wizards in 6

Celtics in 6
Pistons in 6

Celtics in 7

by ooba on Apr 15, 2008 5:03 PM EDT reply actions

Picks

MVP: Jamison
Rookie of the Year: Horford
Coach of the Year: Jerry Sloan
Defensive Player of the Year: Garnett
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: Farmar?
Most Improved Player: BTH
Glue Guy Award: Garnett?

Celtics in 4
Pistons in 5
Magic in 5
Wizards in 5

Wizards in 7
Pistons in 6

Pistons in 6

by zeke5123 on Apr 15, 2008 5:03 PM EDT reply actions

Picks

MVP: Chris Paul
Rookie of the Year: Kevin Durant
Coach of the Year: Byron Scott
Defensive Player of the Year: Kevin Garnett
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: John Salmons
Most Improved Player: Hedo Turkoglu
Glue Guy Award (to the guy who's stats and press don't accurately account his impact: DeShawn Stevenson

Also, predict the East playoffs in this space (because the West isn't sorted out yet).

Celtics/Hawks: Celts in 4
Pistons/Sixers: Pistons in 5
Magic/Raptors: Magic in 6
Cavs/Wiz: Wiz in 6

"Now, obviously individual production does not unilaterally equal better team production, but there's a high level of causation."

by Vanilla Gorilla on Apr 15, 2008 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

Uhhh later rounds

Celts in 6
Pistons in 5

Celts in 6

"Now, obviously individual production does not unilaterally equal better team production, but there's a high level of causation."

by Vanilla Gorilla on Apr 15, 2008 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Picks

MVP: Kobe
Rookie of the Year: Durant
Coach of the Year: Byron Scott
Defensive Player of the Year: KG
Sixth Man: Barbosa
Most Improved: Hedo Turkoglu
Glue guy Award: yeah, I'll go with Deshawn

Celts in 4
Pistons in 4
Magic in 5
Wiz in 6

Celts in 7
Pistons in 6

Celts in 6

by sierradave on Apr 15, 2008 5:55 PM EDT reply actions

I'm going against logic besides the MVP.

MVP: Chris Paul
Rookie of the Year: Al Horford
Coach of the Year: Rick Adelman
Defensive Player of the Year: Tim Duncan
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: Leandro Barbosa
Most Improved Player: Chris Kaman
Glue Guy Award: Tayshaun Prince

Celtics Hawks: in 4
Pistons Sixers: in 5
Magic Raptors: in 6
Cavs Wizards: in 6

Celtics Wizards: in 7
Pistons Magic: in 6

Pistons Wizards: in 5 (the magic will run out by then and we always seem to get crushed by Detroit.)

Pistons Western team: in 7

by Craig @ Bullets Forever on Apr 15, 2008 7:12 PM EDT reply actions

Not even going to try clever comments

Prada already locked that down in the NBA blogger voting coming out next week.

MVP: Chris Paul
Rookie of the Year: Kevin Durant.
Coach of the Year: Rick Adelman
Defensive Player of the Year: Kevin Garnett
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: Josh Childress
Most Improved Player: Hedo Turkoglu
Glue Guy Award (to the guy whose stats and press don't accurately account his impact: Brendan Haywood!

Also, predict the East playoffs in this space (because the West isn't sorted out yet).

CelticsHawks:
Pistons/Sixers:
Magic/Raptors:
Cavs Wiz:

by crucifictorious on Apr 15, 2008 9:23 PM EDT reply actions

Giving this the college try

MVP: Kobe
Rookie of the Year: Kevin Durant
Coach of the Year: Byron Scott
Defensive Player of the Year: Kevin Garnett
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: Josh Childress
Most Improved Player: Hedo Turkoglu
Glue Guy Award (to the guy who's stats and press don't accurately account his impact): Derek Fisher

Celtics/Hawks: Celtics in 4
Pistons/Sixers: Pistons in 5
Magic/Raptors: Magic in 6
Cavs/Wiz: Wiz in 6

Celtics/Wiz: Celtics in 6
Pistons/Magic: Pistons in 6

Celtics/Pistons: Celtics in 6

Bullets Forever: Where discussion on personnel decisions turn into arguments about Lindsay Lohan.

by Jake Whitacre on Apr 15, 2008 10:18 PM EDT reply actions

Wellllllllll!

I just want to say something about Durant, he is OBVIOUSLY the rookie of the year. He has played really well recently, as good as anyone in the league. Makes you wonder how good he can be. Best 19 year old I have seen. The shots against Dallas and Denver are like MJ, clutch. I got a jersey of this guy online recently: http://www.dealstudio.com/searchdeals.php?deal_id=97227&ru=279 , if he wins this award, I hope he could sign for me! LoL!

by bhnvhhdcd23 on Apr 15, 2008 11:36 PM EDT reply actions

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Predicting how this squad is going to perform is like trying to solve trig problems with pen and paper. -sierradave.

by Mike Prada on Apr 15, 2008 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions

MVP: chris paul
Rookie of the Year: KD (of course lol- KD from Maryland? We in there!)
Coach of the Year: eddie
Defensive Player of the Year: battier
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: gordon
Most Improved Player: butler
Glue Guy Award (to the guy who’s stats and press don’t accurately account his impact: haywood

Also, predict the East playoffs in this space (because the West isn’t sorted out yet).

Celtics/Hawks: celtics
Pistons/Sixers: pistons
Magic/Raptors: magic
Cavs/Wiz: wizards

wiz over celts
pistons over orl

wiz over pistons

wiz over lak… i cant even type that

by KD Drummond on Apr 16, 2008 5:45 AM EDT reply actions

MVP: chris paul
Rookie of the Year: Durant (Too good, beginning to evolve)
Coach of the Year: Byron Scott
Defensive Player of the Year: Garnett
Non-Ginobili Sixth Man of the Year: Barbosa
Most Improved Player: Montae Ellis (again. he deserves it).
Glue Guy Award: Garnett
Also, predict the East playoffs in this space (because the West isn’t sorted out yet).
Celtics/Hawks: Celtics in 6
Pistons/Sixers: Pistons in 6
Magic/Raptors: Magic in 5
Cavs/Wiz: Wiz in 6

Celtics/Wiz- Wiz in 7
Pistons/Magic- Pistons in 6

Pistons/Wiz- Detroit in 6

DAGGER!

by SP Yup on Apr 16, 2008 10:09 AM EDT reply actions