He's a better player than Mooney, he's been rested throughout the season such is the embarrassment of riches United has with their team they've been able to play him limited minutes all season saving him for the playoffs and they still comfortably finished top of the ladder.

Clearly he was miffed not being a finalist for MVP but he was never a serious chance to win it given United were always curbing his minutes.

This is probably all loose change to him compared to his Europe money previously and NBA money to come.

I don't think he is going to lose sleep over this.

Sounds offended and rightfully so. He should be on that list ahead of Sobey & Harvey. Anybody with any sensibility knows that. He's gonna have the last laugh though that’s for sure.

He clearly hasn't learned from the "undefeated" comment.

He's one of 4 or 5 guys with a genuine MVP case. Even Creek or Ware weren't far off it.

Landale is a victim of Vickerman's equal opportunity system- 26th in NBL in minutes per game

All the other contenders are top 12- Cotton, Sobey top 2, Ware 5th, Mooney 7th, Harvey 9th Creek 12th

They're averaging 32-36 mpg whereas Landale 27.5. Landale only played more than 31 minutes in 5 games. Means he had less opportunity for those monster 25-30 point games that make people take notice.

He was a model of consistency, played the team game and the best player on a team who was 3 games clear on top. MVP material absolutely, but like I said, so were a few other guys

I don't think Jock is a certain NBA player.

But I think he's definitely got a better chance of getting there, and a game that's more suited towards playing a role over there or in Euroleague, compared to the 3 guys ahead of him

Cotton is mvp for mine, but I do think Landale is a better chance of becoming a top Euroleague player or an NBA role player. That's probably what Landale had in mind when he's saying he's "better".

Players have different strenths and weaknesses that lend themselves towards different things

Those of us who played junior basketball wouldve seen this first hand- some guys dominate the local comps but don't shine as much in representative colours

Similarly, someone like a Dave Barlow, accomplished NBL player with a 15 year career behind him, at NBL1 level doesnt necessarily "dominate" and lesser NBL players or fringe NBL player put up better numbers than him

Landale I think will turn out to be similar, in that he didnt average 25ppg at NBL, but has a game thats suited to the higher levels of basketball- being 6-11 with range that extends way outside, can run the floor, a smart decision maker who can play within a system, and efficient.

"they've been able to play him limited minutes all season saving him for the playoffs"

So your argument is that because he wasn't fit enough to play the same minutes as Mooney, that makes Landale a better player?
So obviously Jawai is better than both of them and should be MVP?
Landale's "problem" is that even when he was playing last season (before covid shut it all down) he was only playing 20 minutes. He's actually improved on that.

" comfortably finished top of the ladder."

Nothing comfortable about it, by all accounts Cotton is still in pain.

Being "better" in Basketball is all relative. Landale is a great player by NBL standard, and can pretty comfortably dominate at the 5 spot. His "better relates to the fact that he can also play the 4 internationally, and at his best was considered a prospect for playing the 4 at NBA level.

Mooney has played above his size all season, and mostly done exceptionally well, but no surprise was less successful against Landale. I think that with his athleticism and outside shot, he'd be good enough to play PF in Europe. But NBA??? Surely he'd be too small?

Goose.

He isn't on our team though because Melbourne United have no fans.

Bogut 2.0

Whoa... I mean confidence is one thing but blind arrogance is just next level LOL…. He's not THAT good , he’s good but so are plenty of others , he’s got to stand the test of time , he probably will get to NBA but he will be a bit player not an all star, his ego will be bruised badly , hope he takes lots of "swell down" when he goes

...he looks like an emu!