We were up 11 in the 4th quarter.....yea, sorry, not buying it. I'm not even sure if OP is being 100% serious, but to answer the question, yea, a lotta doubt he was our MVP.
I still remember when even with Perk on this team last season, everyone here was saying that teams were supposedly not scared of us. I know whoever said that won't admit they said that, but they did. That's reason enough to say Perkins wasn't our MVP, and more than likely he won't be the Thunder's, either.
The problem is JO and Shaq need to come back. Krstic is doing his best, bless him, but he's not enough. BBD clearly can't be our long-term center off the bench, or even to close games. I'm done seeing that.
No doubt our chemistry was affected. I'm not gonna act like that suddenly never existed. But if you wanna know why we're not winning the games we should, IMO......Perkins went out, and Shaq and JO have yet to come in since, thus Krstic has been our only legit center. Murphy wasn't getting it done as it was, and now even HE is hurt.
Hopefully JO and Shaq do actually come back Wednesday and Thursday, and finally we have more than one center. If they both come back, we're that much tougher to beat.