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Post by LoCo89 on Jan 8, 2015 18:15:28 GMT -6
Beginning today until the last sim of the season, feel free to post stats, in-season achievements, moves made, pictures, biographies... Whatever it is that makes your yourself stand out above the rest of the GMs. Please keep your "pimping" relevant to the award thread you are in.
NEW RULE FOR THREADS: You are allowed to make one post about yourself (edits of your original post will be allowed). There will NOT be any goading or attacking other candidates to create nonsense drama like previous years. Any additional BS posted in threads will be deleted. The campaigning period officially ends when the sim occurs.
Voting period starts Friday after the final sim and will be due by the lock of the first playoff sim. No exceptions
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Post by ballsohard on Jan 9, 2015 0:56:07 GMT -6
I'll take the time to nominate Kevin Garnett. KG came into the league as a high schooler with nothing but upside. His first year in the league he was miscast as a SF. Since then, he's steadily improved, but has not deserved recognition or the honor of this reward. This year, KG has made the jump from Potential Star to Star, and has the room to grow into a superstar. For starters KG was voted into his first All Star game. KG will also challenge to make an all league team, which slots him next to some very elite company.
Honors:
1st All Star Game
Improvements:
PPG: Increase 5.5 per game from 19.2 to 24.7 with .7 less minutes per game.
Rebounds: Increase 1 Per Game from 7.1 to 8
Turnover Rate: Decrease .5
PER: Increase by 9 from 21.9 to 30.7.
*Please note there are some players starting in out league with a 9 OVERALL PER starting for division leaders (See Mutumbo, Dikembe). This is the equivalent of him going from Clarence Weatherspoon (19.2) to (better than <3 Raby ) Chris Webber (29) over the course of 1 season.
Current Leaders in PER at PF:
Shawn Kemp 40
KG 30.7
Gugs 29.8
Webber 29
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Post by WigNosy on Jan 9, 2015 12:24:29 GMT -6
I hold forth Jamal Mashburn for consideration for Most Improved Player. The general sentiment around the league coming into this season was that Mashburn was a player on the decline; his productivity had been falling over the past couple of seasons and in fact in 1997 had fallen to a career low (even worse than his rookie campaign). So to see his sudden renaissance has been truly something I think nobody saw coming.
Mashburn took a scoring average of 10.7 points per game last season and turned it into 18.6 points per game as of this writing. Yes, his minutes went up a tick, but the biggest reason for this has been his huge improvement in perimeter shooting. His jump shooting has risen 33 points over his performance last season, and his three point shooting is up a whopping 84 points (from .287 to .371), moving him from a "clear liabilty" to a league leader (ranked #22 in the league in three-point shooting as of this writing). This in turn has made him a far more efficient player, increasing his PER rating from 13.4 last season to 19.5 this season.
Perhaps more remarkably, he's seeing this improvement on a team where he's not the only offensive option, or even the first option - on the Hawks, Antonio McDyess is the undisputed first option and Mash has teammates that have been putting up big scoring numbers as well - McDyess is averaging 21.2 points per game, Stith is averaging 17.2, and Ben Wallace 11.3 (to say nothing of Marshall's 16.4 ppg in the games he played) - with all these other weapons averaging double-digit scoring and taking away potential shot opportunities, the fact that Mashburn is still so productive offensively is uncanny.
Is Mashburn an all-star? I'm not crazy... he's not. There are at least four or five better starting SFs in the East this year (four played in the All-Star game and I'll listen to an argument that Glen Rice is still better). Did he make huge improvements in production in a situation where you might legitimately have expected his production to go down because he was surrounded by better scorers than the year before (sorry Juwan Howard, Nick Anderson, Rik Smits, and Damon Stoudamire)? Absolutely. He fits the definition of "Most Improved" to a T.
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Post by WigNosy on Jan 15, 2015 1:58:22 GMT -6
Wanted to wait to see if he kept up his stats following that early broken leg... and Donyell Marshall hasn't disappointed.
Minutes up from 31.2 to 36.9
Points up from 10.9 to 17.3
Rebounds up from 7.9 to 9.5
Assists up from 2.1 to 2.6
Fouls down from 3.1 to 2.8
FG% up .463 to .498
Three-point shooting up from .346 to .400 (even with threes per game up from 1.5 to 2.5)
PER up from 14.9 to 20.7
He may not have gotten to play in as many games as the other candidates, but there is a large enough sample of games now to see he truly has improved.
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Soundwave
Full Member
Toronto Raptors
Winter is coming
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Post by Soundwave on Jan 16, 2015 13:03:03 GMT -6
Tim Thomas Led the league in 3pt% thru most of the season. (Now 2nd)  52 percentage points increased in TS%. .14 increase in PPS 3.1 increase in PER 2.9 increase in EWA (huge #) All in fewer minutes. |
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Post by fearthebrow on Jan 16, 2015 16:14:51 GMT -6
Hakeem Olajuwon
Started every game this season after spending last season on the bench.
Minutes increased from 23.8 to 34.8
Points increased from 10.7 to 13.3
ORB increased from 1.7 to 2.2
DRB increased from 4.5 to 7.4
Assists increased from 1.3 to 2.1
Blocks held steady from 2.6 to 2.7
In a contract year the 36 year old proved that he is still a force to be reckoned with. Do what's right and vote for him as the most improved player of the year.
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logpmess
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Miami Heat
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Post by logpmess on Jan 16, 2015 16:15:32 GMT -6
The true leader of the Miami Heat Gary Payton is a prime candidate for this award. His stats have not had a glaring improvement from years past, but its what he does for his team. He is the offensive and defensive leader of this team who averages the third most 3 point shots in the league.
PPG last year 19.9
PPG this year 24.2
DEFF last year 97.6
DEFF this year 94.9
ASS last year 7.9
ASS this year 8.2
3P% last year .373
3P% this year .396
On top of his improvements in simple categories, Gary Payton has taken the step from superstar to potential MVP. He has won player of the week 5 times this year as opposed to 7 times over the past 7 seasons. He was starting point guard for the Eastern conference this year. He is high in a lot of stats this year for league leaders:
PPG: 8
Assists: 4
Steals 4
3P%: 9
Although this award usually goes to the person who scored more points this year as opposed to last year, I believe that Gary Payton's jump is significantly more important to his team and the league than somebody who has just had an increase in minutes. Gary Payton is averaging just 1.3 more minutes per game this year.
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