<div align="center"><div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> NEW YORK, April 28 -- Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies has been named the winner of the 2005-06 NBA Sixth Man Award, honoring the league?s top player in a reserve role, the NBA announced today. Miller received 501 out of a possible 615 points, including 88 of a possible 123 first-place votes, from a panel of 123 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Speedy Claxton of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets finished second with 205 points and Jerry Stackhouse finished third with 162 points. Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote. </div> http://www.nba.com/news/awards2006_sixthman.html</div>
Congrats to Mike Miller he was a nice spark off the bench all season for the Grizzlies. I was actually surprised to see Speedy Claxton finishing 2nd, I figured Stackhouse would be 2nd on most writer's ballots.
Now maybe it's just my Dallas' instincts kicking in, but i really thought Jerry Stackhouse deserved this more then Mike Miller. I mean Miller, started most like all of his games last year and still got the same stats this year coming off the bench, while this is the second year Jerry has come of the bench for most games and still put up identical numbers. Stackhouse is one of the key players that helps Dallas to their key victories, while memphis could easily do w/o Miller. All he does is shoot threes, while Stackhouse can shoot the threes AND s one of the best pentrators in the league!
I think Stackhouse would have won it if he played the entire season, he only suited up for 55 games. Mike Miller played in 74 games for the Grizzlies.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Remedy:</div><div class="quote_post">Now maybe it's just my Dallas' instincts kicking in, but i really thought Jerry Stackhouse deserved this more then Mike Miller. I mean Miller, started most like all of his games last year and still got the same stats this year coming off the bench, while this is the second year Jerry has come of the bench for most games and still put up identical numbers. Stackhouse is one of the key players that helps Dallas to their key victories, while memphis could easily do w/o Miller. All he does is shoot threes, while Stackhouse can shoot the threes AND s one of the best pentrators in the league!</div> Lol, I think I'll let our resident Memphis fans, VC and JW take this one. Miller deserved it this year, hands down.
I'm a Dallas fan and Mike Miller still had my vote. Personally, I wouldn't even give Stack the 6th man of the Dallas Mavericks award. Dampier coming off the bench benefits our team much more than Stack. Maybe if his (Stack's) percentages were higher I'd rate him better, but he comes off the bench as an offensive specialist - he should shoot better than 40% from the field and 27% from 3.
