Isaac
Years ago
Award ceremony is in Melbourne. There will be the usual announcements for MVP, coach, rookie, best defender, sixth man, most improved and ref of the year. All-Star Fives also.
Boti thinks that Randle missed too many games to win MVP: Full article
Didn't realise the announcement was so soon.
paul
Years ago
Fascinating race for it. Randle missed five games, Webster five, Penney four and Lisch three. Opens the door a little for Ogilvy, Goulding and Jackson who missed one between them.
I still think it will be Randle or Lisch. I had Lisch in my annual awards last week:
http://www.fiba.com/news/it%E2%80%99s-mvp-time
Supernintendo Chalmers
Years ago
I think Lisch would win both a game by game vote count, or an end of year, NBA style award this year.
Supernintendo Chalmers
Years ago
Apparently Ogilvy was not nominated to the the DPOTY...
Isaac
Years ago
I have bets on Randle, Ogilvy (at $21) and Knight (at $51). Worried about Lisch because he is probably the true MVP, being a two-way player absolutely key to a contending team. You see how much Illawarra struggle at times when Martin is able to neutralise him a bit.
Supernintendo Chalmers
Years ago
Knight would have been my front-runner in the first third of the season but fell away a bit once Prather started to do more with the ball.
LV
Years ago
I would have thought Randle would be the front runner, even though he missed 5 games. He would've polled 8 or 10 out of 20 possible votes in a lot of different games, I would've thought.
Randle was fairly consistently Adelaide's best, whereas Penney and Ogilvy (in the first half of the season, at least) would have polled a lot of votes. So my guess is that Lisch might have only got 6 or 7 out of 20 on most of his good nights (Except, perhaps the thriller in NZ where he could have got 10), whereas Randle would be getting lots of 8-10's.
Not fussed who wins it but am intrigued at what the losers do afterwards down by the Yarra.
LV
Years ago
Ricky- each coach gets 5 votes max to one player, and 10 votes total.
So for each game, there are 20 possible votes.
I think Randle would have got 8 or more on plenty of occasions, whereas in many of Lisch's best games he would have only got 5 or 6. Ogilvy was great in the first half of the season (I would've had him as MVP favourite at the half way mark) and Penney was good too. But no 36ers players would've been stealing Randle's votes in the same way.
so boti thinks lisch should be mvp but not in the first team all star 5? how does that make sense?
Ricky
Years ago
Ah, I read that as 10 total between the two coaches so five each to give out. Makes sense now.
paul
Years ago
That was a strange one anon, Lisch is clearly the best two-guard in the league when you factor in both ends.
Dazz
Years ago
Seriously, watch Connelly's theatrics, Joey's big dummy-spit, or Gleeson's "We're going to bash Conklin" comments... We trust these guys to vote post-match?
Ricky
Years ago
Anyone providing odds on that one (RoY)?, I might put a lazy 15,000 on it.
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