a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 1 John Hollinger在espn insider上灌水Truth about the Derrick Rose story | g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 2 Hollinger就是个Joke。成天就知道拿那个PER，舔老悲剧。
这几年季后赛谁被他看好谁倒霉，诸如08年总决赛看好湖人，
09年10年看好骑士。
这下公牛要进总决赛了。
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: John Hollinger在espn insider上灌水Truth about the Derrick Rose story
| f**********n
发帖数: 10757 | 3 没有人合适得啊，本来LBJ应该MVP5连冠的，结果去了热火，nba也没办法
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: John Hollinger在espn insider上灌水Truth about the Derrick Rose story
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 4 一家之言吧
这个赛季没有比肉丝更合适的了
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: John Hollinger在espn insider上灌水Truth about the Derrick Rose story
| a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 5 lol 这个文章还真不是。他自己文章也写了，不用per，换成其他任何数据都行。问题
是你找不出一样能证明玫瑰最强的。
【在 g*****g 的大作中提到】
: Hollinger就是个Joke。成天就知道拿那个PER，舔老悲剧。
: 这几年季后赛谁被他看好谁倒霉，诸如08年总决赛看好湖人，
: 09年10年看好骑士。
: 这下公牛要进总决赛了。
| a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 6 lol. 我觉得应该是DH。当然我也没发言权。
【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 没有人合适得啊，本来LBJ应该MVP5连冠的，结果去了热火，nba也没办法
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 7 不用最强呀，最有价值就行了
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: lol 这个文章还真不是。他自己文章也写了，不用per，换成其他任何数据都行。问题
: 是你找不出一样能证明玫瑰最强的。
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 8 战绩还不如肉丝呀
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: lol. 我觉得应该是DH。当然我也没发言权。
|
| A*****e
发帖数: 29772 | 9 我也觉得应该是DH
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: lol. 我觉得应该是DH。当然我也没发言权。
| a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 10 为啥？看看原文吧。我觉得hollinger一条条反驳的很有理有据。我觉得DH更适合。给
kobe也比rose强。不然kobe才一次mvp，连我这个科黑都觉得不公平。
【在 l******e 的大作中提到】
: 一家之言吧
: 这个赛季没有比肉丝更合适的了
| | | a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 11 玫瑰战绩不如马刺。
【在 l******e 的大作中提到】
: 战绩还不如肉丝呀
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 12 mvp又不是mvt
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: 玫瑰战绩不如马刺。
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 13 帖来看看
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: 为啥？看看原文吧。我觉得hollinger一条条反驳的很有理有据。我觉得DH更适合。给
: kobe也比rose强。不然kobe才一次mvp，连我这个科黑都觉得不公平。
| a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 14 最有价值也谈不上。hollinger原文分析的挺清楚，你把玫瑰换成本赛季的小炮甚至西
溪，公牛估计战绩和现在一样。DH你找不出一个本赛季能换的人。最多就是伤了半赛季
的白嫩。
【在 l******e 的大作中提到】
: 不用最强呀，最有价值就行了
| n***g
发帖数: 5027 | 15 你比他牛逼？
【在 g*****g 的大作中提到】
: Hollinger就是个Joke。成天就知道拿那个PER，舔老悲剧。
: 这几年季后赛谁被他看好谁倒霉，诸如08年总决赛看好湖人，
: 09年10年看好骑士。
: 这下公牛要进总决赛了。
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 16 这种big if, then的文章，基本上是扯淡文
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: 最有价值也谈不上。hollinger原文分析的挺清楚，你把玫瑰换成本赛季的小炮甚至西
: 溪，公牛估计战绩和现在一样。DH你找不出一个本赛季能换的人。最多就是伤了半赛季
: 的白嫩。
| O****X
发帖数: 24292 | | a***n
发帖数: 5665 | 18 比较长。
What bothers me so much about this year's MVP coronation of "The Derrick
Rose Story" is not so much that it's a mistake -- we've had bad award votes
before and will have them again -- but that it's the same mistake, for the
fifth time in 11 years.
This is an inherent risk in the MVP selection process. When you ask people
whose life's work is to seek out and tell great stories to vote on this
award, we shouldn't be surprised when they turn out to vote for the best
story rather than the player who is most valuable.
Guards especially make for great stories, because they're natural underdogs.
Height, obviously, is a huge factor in this game, so we're completely
fascinated when smaller players can play at a high level. Generally, what
they do is a lot more captivating than watching a 7-footer methodically dunk
on people's heads, even if the latter is a much more effective way to win
basketball games. We don't like rooting for Goliath.
Put a guard on a "surprise" team and the impact doubles. Everyone looks for
The Cause, and all roads lead back to the guard. Jab in an IV and let the
confirmation bias flow through your veins, and soon even the negative plays
become proof ("Look at the shot he almost made!"). This usually happens only
with perimeter players, by the way. A miss on a double-clutching drive
after a sweet crossover can be spectacular, in a way that a missed jump hook
simply cannot.
A brief history of Voting the Story
As a result of all our fun with guards and their compelling stories, the
three dominant big men of the past decade -- Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Garnett
and Tim Duncan -- were shafted out of three MVP awards and nearly a fourth.
Ask how this happened and you'll get a lot of embarrassed shrugging, and
yet we're headed down that same path again.
So we'll end up with "The Derrick Rose Story" as this year's MVP -- just as
we ended up with Allen Iverson winning in 2001, and Steve Nash in 2005 and
2006, and Jason Kidd's second-place finish in 2002 (which I include here
because we only narrowly averted the greatest award travesty in league
history, when one of the greatest players of all time had the best season of
his career and nearly lost the award to a guy who shot 39.1 percent).
And make no mistake, the voters are pulling the lever for the story, and not
the player.
How do we know that? Actually, we can prove it. Even if we presume that the
stats somehow didn't adequately capture the value of Iverson, Kidd or Nash,
we have a smoking gun that the vote was for the story and not the player.
Believe it or not, the voters told us. Actions speak louder than words, and
their ballots in other seasons are Bose speakers blaring out that they voted
for the story.
Neither Nash, Iverson nor Kidd had their best seasons the year they won (or
nearly won, in Kidd's case). In fact, each had a dramatically stronger case
in other seasons. What they lacked was the storyline.
Check out the evidence:
• Kidd is the most egregious example. In 2001-02, he almost won the
award, receiving 45 first-place votes. The next season, the Nets traded two
starters for a declining Dikembe Mutombo but made it back to the 2003 Finals
anyway because Kidd had by far the best season of his career; compared to
his first year in New Jersey, he added four points to his scoring average,
shot better and took on a dramatically larger offensive role. If Kidd was
the real MVP in 2001-02 (on a huge number of ballots), and the stats were
somehow missing that, then surely he was even more valuable in 2002-03 and
should have cruised to the trophy.
You know how many first-place MVP votes Kidd got in 2003? Bupkus. Zilch.
Zippo. Kidd had only 31 total points, for a ninth-place finish that put him
right behind Detroit's Ben Wallace. If people weren't voting for the story
in 2002, as opposed to the player, explain that one.
• Nash is an equally strong example. As everyone knows, he won the MVP
in 2005, sporting a player efficiency rating of 22.04 while joining with a
dominant power forward to lead a 62-win team. What few people realize is
that two years earlier, he had teamed up with a dominant power forward to
win 60 games and tie for the best record in the West; he had a better PER
that season (23.51) and played more minutes. For his efforts he received one
fifth-place vote.
The difference between those seasons, obviously, was that in 2004-05 Nash
was a great story, because he had just joined a 29-win team that
surprisingly rose to first in the West. The 2002-03 Mavericks were already
good, so his performance there was deemed a minor event.
• You can do this exercise with several other Nash seasons. For
instance, Nash won the MVP with a PER of 23.29 in 2006, leading a 54-win
team in the conference finals. In 2009-10, Nash had a PER of 21.25 and led a
54-win team to the conference finals. He finished eighth and didn't get a
single first-place vote. Nash also finished a distant second behind Dirk
Nowitzki the year he had his best statistical season, 2006-07, and won 61
games. Again, it sure seems like the story was the dividing factor between
these seasons, and not the player.
• Iverson outperformed his MVP season in both 2004-05 and 2005-06; he
had a comparable PER in more minutes in the former and a better PER in more
minutes in the latter. He didn't come close to winning in either season,
finishing fifth in 2005 and getting just a single fifth-place vote in 2006.
(Side note: If you don't like PER, you can use any other measures and get
the same answers, which shouldn't be a surprise, since PER is essentially a
summary of all the other statistical categories.)
What's the explanation for this other than that the voters went for the best
story instead of the best player? Did all three of these guys suddenly
become crappier leaders or lose their clutch mojo in those other seasons?
No -- they just weren't hot stories.
The burden of proof
The same thing is going to happen this season with "The Derrick Rose Story."
Let me emphasize that Rose is indeed a very valuable player, and that what
he and the Bulls have done this season is undeniably a great story. It does
not, however, make him more valuable than every single other player in the
entire league, and the evidence for this is abundantly clear to anyone who
cares to look for it. Sorry, but if you want me to build the pedestal that
high, I'm gonna need some more concrete for the foundation.
This part gets Rose fans terribly upset, but it's really basic: There is a
glaring lack of evidence that he is as valuable as has been claimed. It's
not just a question of one selected number or another not supporting his
case. It's that none of the numbers do.
I'm not cherry-picking stats to support some covert Rose-hating agenda. I
literally cannot find a single shred of data, anywhere, to support the idea
that he's the most valuable player in the league.
Rose already has an uphill climb in any logical debate -- his status as the
front-runner rests uneasily beside the fact that he'd be the fourth-best
player in the state of Florida. This is where people point out that "Most
Valuable" and "Best" aren't necessarily the same thing, and that's correct.
But it does shift the burden of proof. If you're going to tell me that Rose
has been more valuable this season in spite of those facts, you better bring
a hell of a lot more to the table than, "But watch him play!" (For the
record, I've seen him in person four times this season and countless other
games on the tube.)
Digging for proof
This always gets people screaming and yelling about those infernal statheads
, as though it's some kind of horrible imposition to ask for actual hard
evidence to back up an MVP vote.
"Nobody has carried a greater burden than Rose," it's been said, and in an
extremely narrow sense that's almost true -- only Kobe Bryant has used more
possessions. Carrying the burden well, on the other hand, hasn't been his
strong suit, as his middling true shooting percentage attests. More
obviously, there are greater burdens than handling the ball for 20 seconds
on every trip. Dwight Howard, for instance, carries the burden of being his
team's entire defense and absorbing vicious beatings on offense, but it's
tough to package that in a highlight reel.
"Rose won without Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah," it's been said, and
certainly the Bulls did just that. However, even when those players were out
, the Bulls outscored opponents when Rose was off the court, suggesting they
were far more than the one-man band that's been depicted. None of the Bulls
' other players are big stars, and this throws people, but Chicago's depth
and defensive ability have carried it this year.
And finally, there's the idea of his indispensability -- it's the "they're
nothing without him" approach. If that's the case, the Bulls should perform
much worse when he's off the court than they do. Certainly, it's the case
with most other stars. The Heat are 10.49 points per 100 possessions worse
without LeBron James this season; the Mavs, 16.68 points worse without Dirk
Nowitzki; the Magic, 6.95 worse without Howard, and the Lakers, 6.20 worse
without Bryant.
Rose's Bulls? They lose just 1.49 points per 100 possessions. When he's off
the court, they still outscore opponents by 6.78 per 100, which roughly
translates to a 55-win team.
Now, that first measure does understate Rose's impact, because he's played a
lot of minutes with guys like Keith Bogans and Kurt Thomas. You can get
more scientific by adjusting for the players Rose players with and against,
as basketballvalue.com does, and the difference becomes a more respectable 8
.60. But that isn't the biggest difference in the league, or even close to
it. Howard benefits from the same math -- Orlando is 12.36 points better per
100 possessions with him on the court after said adjustment.
Yes, these stats are notoriously noisy. But as I noted above, "The Derrick
Rose Story" doesn't have compelling evidence to start with; this is another
plank of non-support.
Other arguments similarly fall flat. "Look at Rose's impact on the Bulls'
winning," you say. Well, Chicago has certainly won a ton, and they've done
it with a suffocating defense than ranks first in the league.
Rose? He's arguably been the least important part of that equation. While I'
d argue the stats undervalue his defensive improvement this season, it's a
bit jarring to find out that the Bulls actually give up dramatically fewer
points the second he exits the game.
As for the argument that Rose was the catalyst for the defense anyway,
because of his buy-in to coach Tim Thibodeau's approach … I agree that was
a necessary condition for Chicago's success. But has it really come to this?
Are we really giving out an MVP trophy with "actually tried on defense for
a change" as a key bullet point in the résumé?
If Rose is indispensable, however, we might also try to remove him from the
Bulls entirely and see what happens. The equation everyone tries to make in
their head is what I call the "bad backup" test, which holds that since Rose
would be replaced by C.J. Watson while LeBron James would be replaced by
Dwyane Wade, then Rose must be more valuable.
In this test, there's no reason to focus on just the team, however. A better
version of this test will lead you directly to this year's true MVP:
Whom else in the league could you replace this player with?
That's really what we want to know, isn't it? If you could trade the player
tomorrow and replace him with somebody just as good, it's hard to make a
case that he's the single most valuable player in the league, right?
In Rose's case, it's pretty apparent that you could replace him with Russell
Westbrook and suffer virtually no drop-off. They both use an equally large
chunk of their team's possessions, and use them almost exactly the same way
in terms of shot-pass decisions and spots on the floor. Rose shoots more
jumpers and Westbrook takes more free throws, but by and large you'd get the
same results.
Not a fan of Westbrook? Fine. You can try the same exercise with Nash, or
Chris Paul, or Deron Williams, or even Wade, who despite being a 2 has a lot
of similar attributes to Rose. One can argue for days whether Rose is a bit
better than these players, and if so, by how much, but we're talking about
small change here. And it's not just that there's one particular player you
could replace Rose with and suffer only marginal decline; there are several
such players.
Now, let's try the same exercise with another player.
Who could replace Dwight Howard?
Anyone?
[Taps foot]
Got a candidate in mind yet?
[Looks at watch]
No, I mean from this season, not 1995. Try again.
[Crickets chirping]
Still waiting …
The conclusion is obvious, isn't it?
Dwight Howard is the most irreplaceable player in the league.
This is the ultimate reason not to vote "The Derrick Rose Story" for MVP:
Every argument put forward for him works better for somebody else, and in
particular works better for Howard.
This last one is the most damning, however. Put Westbrook, Paul or Williams
in for Rose and the Bulls might slip a couple of games. Might. Put any other
player in Howard's position and the Magic immediately turn to sawdust. It's
not just that he's second in the league in PER and seventh in adjusted plus
-minus; it's that no other center can touch him in either category, and the
one who is closest (Andrew Bynum) has played half as many minutes.
Unlike "The Derrick Rose Story," Howard's case has more than just raw
emotion to support it. The Magic are third in the NBA in defensive
efficiency -- ahead of Miami, Milwaukee, the Lakers and Dallas, among others
-- even though nobody else in their top eight is even an average defensive
player. An Orlando team that often plays Gilbert Arenas, Hedo Turkoglu and
Ryan Anderson at the same time still gets elite defensive results because
Howard so completely controls the paint behind them.
Offensively, Howard's fingerprints are everywhere, too -- not just with the
dunks, but with the fouls he draws that put opponents in the bonus and hand
his teammates easy freebies, and the clean 3-point looks that come without
his ever touching the ball. It's not always pretty, but it's hugely valuable.
So why have the Magic not won more games than the Bulls? Because, to borrow
everyone's favorite line about Rose, Howard has played the entire season
without Boozer and Noah, and Luol Deng. Any of these three would be the
second-best player on the Magic. Compare the benches and you'll get a
similar laugh riot; the Bulls have arguably the league's best backup center,
for instance, while the Magic don't even keep one on the roster.
Unfortunately, the momentum is probably too far gone at this point. We like
great stories and we don't particularly enjoy rooting for Goliath, so "The
Derrick Rose Story" will win the MVP trophy when it should probably finish
sixth or seventh, and Howard will end up in the same shafted company as Shaq
, Garnett and Duncan before him.
But let's not kid ourselves. In the end, this vote says a lot more about us
than it does about either Rose or Howard.
【在 l******e 的大作中提到】
: 帖来看看
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 19 太长，就瞄了一眼
"It does not, however, make him more valuable than every single other player
in the entire league"
这话写出来就知道是扯淡了
votes
underdogs.
【在 a***n 的大作中提到】
: 比较长。
: What bothers me so much about this year's MVP coronation of "The Derrick
: Rose Story" is not so much that it's a mistake -- we've had bad award votes
: before and will have them again -- but that it's the same mistake, for the
: fifth time in 11 years.
: This is an inherent risk in the MVP selection process. When you ask people
: whose life's work is to seek out and tell great stories to vote on this
: award, we shouldn't be surprised when they turn out to vote for the best
: story rather than the player who is most valuable.
: Guards especially make for great stories, because they're natural underdogs.
| O****X
发帖数: 24292 | | | | s***o
发帖数: 6934 | 21 用every没问题，用any有问题
player
【在 l******e 的大作中提到】
: 太长，就瞄了一眼
: "It does not, however, make him more valuable than every single other player
: in the entire league"
: 这话写出来就知道是扯淡了
:
: votes
: underdogs.
| l******e
发帖数: 12192 | 22 表入戏太深
【在 O****X 的大作中提到】
: MVP本来就是有点扯淡的一个头衔
| O****X
发帖数: 24292 | 23 你得到了她
【在 l******e 的大作中提到】
: 表入戏太深
| E********t
发帖数: 4091 | 24 霍专家不站出来拍罗斯两块板砖就显得ESPN太不专业了
有人正面角色有人反面角色戏才能唱的好 | g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 25 至少我预测比他牛逼多了。过去三年我好歹没预测错，
这哥们就没预测对过。
【在 n***g 的大作中提到】
: 你比他牛逼？
| h*****n
发帖数: 2023 | 26 今年你预测谁？
【在 g*****g 的大作中提到】
: 至少我预测比他牛逼多了。过去三年我好歹没预测错，
: 这哥们就没预测对过。
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