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MVP contenders?

If creek didn't miss a handful of games through injury he'd be up there. I think newbill has had just as good a season as sosa has.

On contenders by club, this is off IMO:

Adelaide: Creek, Johnson, Sobey

Have guys like Boti...This would stop team and personal bias.

I am surprised Josh Boone does not get a mention here the guy is a beast.

DJ - 16.4p, 7.1r, 2.4a, 44.7% fg, 30.9% 3pt

Creek - 14.4p, 5.1r, 2.5a, 1.3s, 64.7% fg

I think you've got to give it to DJ.

Not Daniel Johnson in place of Creek at 36ers?

The 3rd contender for Perth would probably be Angus Brandt. But he is so far off the JPT/Cotton pace it is irrelevant anyway.

Childress would be more of a look in than Sobey IMO.

One of the first years in recent memory where there isn't really an outstanding player or two to choose from. I've seen about 5-6 legit cases for different players. I think even one of the commentators said Bryce Cotton was in with a shot even though he didn't have him in either his first or second NBL team!!

That's another reason why I don't like the voting format. Should be a 3-2-1 (or 5-4-3-2-1) format voted on by media outlets/journalists and/or referees after each game. I prefer the media approach. Have guys like Boti, Liam Santamaria, andthefoul.net aswell as other media outlets, including maybe commentators vote for the award. I would propose 3 different 'Journalists' to attend and vote on every game throughout the season. For a 6ers home game for example, we could have Boti, a 2nd media outlet, and John Casey voting for their game MVP's. These votes would be separate, so each voter gets their own 3-2-1 and collab them together.

This would stop team and personal bias. Do we really think Joey Wright is giving Perth players votes after the skirmish in the jungle last week. Emotions would be high and I don't think he would be giving Perth players the votes they probably deserved for that game.
It would also stop poor miscommunications like Matty Nielsen last year.


My vote for MVP is Tai Wesley

Often the coach will delegate to an assistant.

Surprised virtually no one has suggested Sosa though looking at the stats he's only averaged about 15 PPG. Not much competition for him in NZ though.

Cotton and Conger have scored well and at decent percentages. Cotton's played a couple of extra games though.

Conger is my pick though.

Frank was wrong. Coaches allocate points to either team.

Neilsen was voting exclusively for Wildcats players early last season, apparently due to a miscommunication about the system.

I don't understand the people who say people take votes off each other every year in the brownlow too. That makes no difference to someone winning it. With that logic how could gaze ever win an mvp with bradtke and copeland taking votes off him or how could akermanis simon black and voss win brownlows when they all played together in the same midfield. Didn't they take votes off each other.

@luc Cotton isnt close to MVP like he isnt close to his $600k salary!

All I know is that Cotton had better not win it.
I put a few bucks on him before the season at very generous odds, and then cashed it out at a nice profit early in the new year when I felt pretty sure was not going to win it.
But looking around the candidates ... it's pretty uninspiring to me. Really no standouts. It's not "which of these great players do we give it to?" as much as "how do we justify one of these good players being MVP?"
I'm not 100% tied to the idea that an MVP must come from a playoff team, but if he's going to come from a .400 team then he'd want to be seriously dominant, which Conger isn't really, but like many others I like his chances. (And if he does, it would still be better than that sad year when Conklin won it)

Meant to say like previous seasons

There isn't a clear stand out like. Just lots of solid contributors so it's hard to pick.

Conger right up there.

Going around the Clubs, the contenders would be:

Adelaide: Creek, Johnson, Sobey
Brisbane: Buford, Trice, Kickert
Cairns: Carerra, Gliddon, Loughton
Illawarra: Conger, Clarke, Olgivy
Melbourne: Goulding, Prather, Ware
New Zealand: Sosa, Sosa, Sosa
Perf: Cotton, Tokoto, Wagstaff/Walker
Sydney: Cadee, Newley, Randle

Injuries would have affected a lot of player's chances. Based on voting process, my top 5 contenders would be (in Alphabetical order):

Conger, Cotton, Sosa, Tokoto, Ware

With how the voting works, I think Conger gets it.

"Prather was probably an outside chance before he got injured"
Say what?
If you did a Brownlow style reveal, I'd be shocked if he wasn't in front at the time he got injured.

I honestly think JP is in with a shot.
But, and I don't know exactly how the voting works, but it may hold him back that he's played some of his most outstanding BBl in losing games.

(He's a shoe-in for the Cats award anyway.)

Best aussie on a team where the imports dont overshadow him, ill take mitch creek. Cant say im happy suggesting it but hes my smokey

Not that I think either should be MVP anyway, but surely Cotton & Tokoto will steal enough votes from each other to ensure that neither can get it

On cue.

Brad Rosen: Demitrius Conger

James Harvey: Bryce Cotton

Lachy Reid: Demitrius Conger

Steve Carfino: Demitrius Conger

Casey Frank: JP Tokoto

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/40063-who-is-the-nbls-most-valuable-player

Randle would wrap it up if he had a full season.

Conger has to have a good last few games to win it. Even though I don't like the way tokoto hogs the ball I think he will get more votes than cotton because people notice tokoto with his huge blocks, big rebounds and dunks whereas cotton just hits shots.

Maybe so, but with the game-to-game voting system, his cumulative FG% doesn't tell the whole story. Haven't checked the game logs, but I know when he was bad he was really bad but when he's been good he's been really good.

That's the thing about topics like this... people may make their MVP predictions based on a one-off end-of-season decision, others may base it on the game-by-game system the NBL implements. It's just like voting at your local/state/federal election... do people vote for pollies who will impact their own individual lives most, or do people vote for the greater good?

Vaughn Mayberry

Ware's got the worst FG % of the top 40 scorers in the league, he only shoots 37.7%.

IMO, you can't give a guy league MVP that doesn't even shoot 38% from the field.

Actually, Casper is my pick. The more I think about it, the more I like it

Casper would probably get it if it weren't a game-by-game vote

Casper would've run away with MVP if the season started when Prather went down

Why are the Centrals called that,be it Baskeball/soccer/SANFL.Wouldnt Northern match the description better since north is already taken?If Forrestville had that name i get it they are geographically in the center of our city.