Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Learn the game, then post. Green has been shooting lights out, but Parker is absolutely, without a doubt, the most valuable player on the team, and not far from Lebron as being the most valuable player in the series. Green has been playing well as a by-product of Parker abusing the Heat defense. He has been tearing them apart from so many angles. They've tried putting everybody on him from Cole, to Chalmer, to James. Nobody can even slow him down. If you think anybody is more responsible for the Spurs' success in the playoffs, and the finals, you haven't been watching the game and have only been looking at the box score.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? They HAVE put Lebron on Parker for stretches of the game. Parker has absolutely lit him up. Parker is much too quick for Lebron to be chasing him all over, and they had to switch Lebron off of Parker.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? When they've tried this, Parker just guards Miller/Jones/Allen, and hasn't been hurt by it much at all.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? It is examples like this that make me less concerned about the Blazers going small for 15-20 minutes a game. I notice this all time that bigger players do not / can not take advantage of mismatches. And the reasons vary. Sometimes it's just because the bigger SG/SF is just more comfortable staying out on the perimeter shooting 3's, and other times it is because they are not the focal point of the offense and a team like Miami is not going to go away from LeBron, Bosh, or Wade just to try to exploit a mismatch.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Green has had an amazing shooting performance. No one is doubting that. However most of his shots are either open looks (no chance the defender can get to the ball before release), or wide open looks (defender not close), with his shoulders square and his feet set. Let's not get carried away thinking Green is doing what Ray Allen and Reggie Miller have done in playoff series before by being the focal point of the opposing defense and taking and making many difficult shots. Green is working hard to put himself in those good shooting spots as often as possible and he is taking and making them. He truly has been very important in the Spurs leading in this series. However, without Duncan down low, and Tony Parker completely OWNING the Heat and getting to any spot on the floor he wants to, there is no way Green gets these wide open looks. It starts with Tony Parker in this series. He is the MVP.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Perhaps, but if you hit Parker with a big lineup the whole game, he'll have a much harder time hiding.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Parker and Duncan are are swept by the Heat without Danny Green's record breaking shooting.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Not true as they would still likely win game 1. But if you feel that way then it goes both ways. Danny Green would not score in double figures if he did not have Tony Parker and Duncan setting him up for open 3's.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Green shot 43% from behind the arc for the year. This isn't an aberration.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Right. It's the same reason that we couldn't exploit Steve Nash when they put him on Batum in the playoff series. Just because there is a height mismatch, it doesn't always lead to a big advantage.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? green has been unreal, but it could have just as easily been kawhi or neal or whomever that said, if green goes 10 for 10 from 3 in game 6 and they win, he takes it home
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Members of the media. General public at home can vote too but it only counts as a small percentage of the final results.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? , No. It's called stepping up your game when it matters. All the greats do it. I don't understand. If its so easy to shoot 67% because of Tony Parker, why doesn't anyone on the Heat do that because of LeBron and Wade? We are witnessing greatness in Danny Green.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? Almost ALL of his 3's are WIDE open. He isn't creating his own shot or for others he is just getting open and knocking down the three. The reason why he is so open is because of Parker causing havoc in the paint.
Re: Danny Green, Finals MVP? He is not the only wide open shooter in the series. All the role players on the Heat are wide open too. Over the history of the NBA Finals, there have been a lot of shooters shooting wide open shots off their stars but NONE have come even close to hitting like he is. Parker is not the reason Green is shooting 67% from the three point line. Green is. The only person who've I've seem come close to this is Derek Fisher in the 2001 NBA Finals.
