Michael Pina

I mean, in my notes preparing for this, I wrote Durant is having an underrated season.

And I feel like he is just...

At least for me, a lot of the attention and focus goes towards what I said earlier about how his minutes and his shots and his touches and his on-ball percentage and his true usage and all that sort of stuff is basically where it's been since he left the Golden State Warriors.

But the shooting splits are staggering.

Just...

such consistency throughout compared to basically any season of his career, almost in terms of efficiency, he's still like the best mid range shooter in the league.

I, you know, crapped on their crunch time offense earlier because they're giving the ball to Kevin Durant and running actions.

And it's like,

Well, if I was a coach of the Houston Rockets, that's probably also what I would do because it's Kevin Durant and he's incredible.

And he makes he amplifies everyone else around him with his gravity and his shooting and his decision making.

So, yeah, it's he's he's still like he's an underrated player and he's an all time great and he's 37 or whatever he is.

And the fact that he's still doing this is borderline unprecedented.

Like besides LeBron James, I don't, I can't recall anyone doing what he's doing at the level he's doing at every single night.

So shout out to Kevin Durant.

Isaiah Stewart.

Exactly.

I've always wanted a defender to win this award.

And when Taj Gibson lost it to Jamal Crawford, who I also love in 2014, it hurt me a little bit.

And I thought that Alex Caruso, I predicted him to win it last year.

Look, the Detroit Pistons are the best team in the Eastern Conference.