Marc makes a decent point here.
Marc D'Amico
@Marc_DAmico
So let me get this straight: if Tatum scores 30+, ignites his team to pull away and blows out another MVP candidate, it’s meaningless bc he’s on a great team.
But if he scored 30+ and his team got blown out by another MVP candidate it would be his fault and a giant detriment to his MVP candidacy.
Make it make sense.
Like the MLB MVP race, stats/analytics weigh too heavily in the discussion. Analytics are decent measurement tools, but not to be weighed over wins.
In the MLB, the leader in WAR is almost automatically the MVP. In the NBA, it’s whichever analytic metric preferred. When that’s close, prop your guy up by piling on the perceived quality of his teammates.
The Most Valuable Player in a season wins the most (with slight room for stats and context). The stats might align with that stance or not, but that shouldn’t outweigh the winning part of it.
Any metric that values Daniel Gafford in the same stratosphere as Bam Adebayo should not be relied upon for who’s more valuable.
Amar’e Stoudemire was statistically better than Steve Nash in 04-05, but with today’s stance, Amar’e would’ve been the MVP.