Houston Rockets: What’s The Best Solution To The MVP Race?
The Houston Rockets are about to start up their second season and we’re about to find out soon who’s the winner of this year’s MVP race.
The Houston Rockets are about to start up their second season and we’re about to find out soon who’s the winner of this year’s MVP race.
What a season that this team has gone through.
For most of it, the Houston Rockets looked exceptionally well, knocking down/attempting a record amount threes per game to blow their opponents out the water.
As much we were skeptical of how this formula would work, Mike D’Antoni has fit in nicely, immersing himself congruently among the players that we have on the roster.
With as bad of a problem we had with team chemistry in the preceding season, that thought is now a distant memory as certainly a factor as to why this team has won so many games.
But this team was built to go the distance and now it’s a test to see if they can do the same in the postseason.
We’ll all be witnesses to see if this latest Houston Rockets experiment will work.
But the biggest story at this moment is the NBA MVP race.
It’s one of the most closest races in recent years as both candidates — James Harden and Russell Westbrook — have been battling against each other to hopefully win that coveted credential which would give them the validation that they need.
Once teammates just some five years ago, they’re now opponents that have both elevated themselves as the respective cornerstone for their franchises.
Each of their teams has enjoyed success although the Rockets have on a much-larger scale.
We were all stat-watching each night both were playing wondering what each would do next.
Another triple-double?
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No problem and it came to a point where it was tough to keep up with their rabid pace.
Although Westbrook won the honors for the most triple-doubles (42) not only this season but all-time — beating Oscar Robertson‘s record — Harden still had 22 to his credit not an easy task.
Harden ended up averaging 29.1 points, a career-high 8.1 rebounds, 11.2 assists along with a 27.3 PER and 15.0 win shares to boot.
Not to mention that Harden broke a four-decades old record held by Tiny Archibald, being a player to have accrued 2,000 points, 900 assists and 600 rebounds in one season.
Westbrook averaged a league-leading 31.6 points, 10.4 assists, 10.1 rebounds along with a 30.6 PER and 13.1 win shares.
Although Westbrook’s usage percentage was a lot higher — 41.7 percent versus Harden’s 34.2 percent, they both still displayed the incredible value that they have to their teams but for the entire league as well.
So you’ve got two exceptional players with earth-shattering production but there’s only one MVP award?
There’s only one solution to this dilemma.
As much as I would to love my hometown hero in Harden to win it all, looking at this sticky situation objectively, there should be Co-MVP award issued to both of these men.
Both have made tremendous strides for the advancement of the game and should be rewarded as such.
Something like this has never been done in the history of professional basketball but there’s a first time for everything right?
Not awarding this trophy to either/or would be a travesty and a slap in the face in all of the hard work that they’ve done.
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This solution probably would not sit well with the utmost of competitors as scrapes the bottom of the “everybody gets a medal” for participating mantra.
But I feel it’s the only way to give these men the credit they deserve.
We’ll see them square off tonight for the next week or so.
I’ve sounded off — what do you think?
Go Rockets.