Also wanted to add that I'm a little excited for the raps this season, I know it's only preseason but quite giddy with them beating both the Cavs and Warriors
They'll do well.
I understood what you were saying. My response was almost reflexive in nature to be honest. As an example, a couple of days ago somebody posted something attacking Bobby Charlton. As a United fan and a Charlton fan I immediately jumped in to defend my guy. The difference is that what you were saying is quite reasonable and not an unfair comparison and Russell Westbrook is also a great player whereas what was posted the other day was absolute bull. As to your remarks on Curry himself, I do agree about regular season MVPs not being indicative of the best player in the League, however if not for a "sweaty Rocket" (so to speak) we might be having a different conversation. Having said all that when LeBron is "on" he is very hard to stop. This year's MVP I think is much more wide open than in previous years. I will be surprised if anyone from the Dubs wins it because it's going to be hard for anyone of their four candidates to separate themselves from the other three. I can see how Westbrook would have a good shot though if he can somehow lead his team to one of the higher playoff seeds. A lot to be answered starting in just under 2 weeks. Can't wait!
Yeah of course I can understand. LeBron at his best is simply unplayable on both ends, he has already entered the elite category alongside the likes of Jordan, Magic, Bird, Russell and the likes in my opinion and he has a chance to be the absolute number 1 - which of course will always be a debate. (I have him in my all time starting 5 - Magic, Jordan, Bird, James, Wilt!
) I'm not a Cavs fan but his finals performance this year was pretty much unbelievable, specially coming against a great team like GSW who had gone 73-9 the same season.
As for this season MVP - it's pretty tricky. Curry won last season despite the team having three top players in him, Klay and Draymond so we can still expect someone from that team to bag it. Afraid to say but they've made it a bit like the Bayern in the Bundesliga scenario with their current roster. I'm highly excited to watch them play though and would want to know how they operate with KD in there now. One possibility could be that having an elite scorer like KD in the team would now mean Steph having lesser responsibility of that on his shoulders and he could possibly now move towards playing like a more CP3-esque PG in facilitating the team while leaving most of the scoring to be done by KD and co. Either ways it will be a real nightmare playing against them now.
In terms of players driving their teams to playoff seeds I'd probably put my money on Kawhi than RW, to be honest.