NBA Awards 2018-19
Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast
Nate Duncan
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🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is it, final awards for the season, Danny I went through, took a fresh look at everything, |
| 0:07.7 | did our best not to let our previous evaluations affect where we ended up here, though obviously, |
| 0:13.6 | it's a similar thought process, so you'll notice a lot of the same themes, but I think we'll end |
| 0:18.6 | up with some differences as we really go through towards the end here with what's happened to some |
| 0:23.6 | of these teams or players in the last month or so. But let's start with the most valuable player, |
| 0:29.0 | Daniela Roo, your 2018-19 NBA MVP is. |
| 0:33.5 | Yannis, I think so the way that I am thinking about the MVP race, |
| 0:39.3 | Hardin, his offensive value is absolutely incredible and his case is really strong. And so in order |
| 0:46.1 | to beat that kind of a season to me, what needed to happen was somebody who more than made up the |
| 0:52.4 | margin on defense because like you, I feel that offense is more important and you can provide, |
| 0:56.5 | you know, more surplus value, you can really do some damage there and help make life easier |
| 1:01.6 | in your teammates. And I think that Yannis did that. He was a very important offensive player, |
| 1:07.1 | not at the same caliber, but also we did our all defense pod recently. He was my number two for |
| 1:12.6 | defensive player of the year. So that's the type of split that you needed to beat Hardin this year. |
| 1:17.0 | And I think Yannis did it. Yeah, you feel it's obvious that Hardin is the more valuable offensive |
| 1:21.0 | player between those two. Yeah, I do. I mean, the impact metrics would have been with you. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, the impact metrics would certainly agree with you in terms of offensive RPM, |
| 1:29.6 | offensive PIPM. So although there, I think most of where that comes from to is Hardin just having |
| 1:36.0 | a lot more usage. Yannis is at 31 Hardin. I think this is the second highest usage season of all time. |
| 1:41.9 | Yannis is more efficient, but I think if you have to say is 64% true shooting on 31 usage or 61% |
| 1:50.0 | true shooting on 40 usage more impressive. I'd probably go with the latter, but I think that the |
| 1:56.4 | defensive impact versus Hardin's negative defensive impact. And we talked about this before, |
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