ESPN is trolling again

[zonasotahomer]

But Davis had a better season numbers wise!

Of course Damian put up numbers that nobody has seen since Allen Iverson, Oscar Robertson, Isiah Thomas, and LeBron, but hey.... Davis is the superior player. It's cool.

Yeum

 

[zonasotahomer]

Yeah, it's cool, once Roy and Oden get healthy we're going to start winning championships baby!

Ours were worse
Love>Roy
Ricky>oden

 

[julius]

Ours were worse
Love>Roy
Ricky>oden

Don't you have your own forum you can go to and whine about your team?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Lol

maybe Drummond and Davis could share it

 

[Natebishop3]

Yeum

"Lillard is also the third rookie ever to reach those numbers in a season and the first rookie since Allen Iverson in 1996-97 with the 76ers. "

"Lillard is the only player in NBA history to score 900-plus points and make 100-plus 3-pointers in his first 50 career games."

"Damian Lillard is first NBA rookie to ever record 35 points, nine assists and no turnovers since turnovers became a stat in 1978-79 (Elias). "

"Lillard joined Oscar Robertson in recording 20 or more points and more than seven assists in his first three rookie season games"

 

[BBert]

LOL. Yes. A player does in fact have to "show up" to win ROY. What a joke.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Davis had a better season numbers wise
Check out his per 36 compared to lillards

OK Einstein, if Davis is so fucking good, why didn't he play 36 mpg? He was the No. 1 overall draft pick by the worst team in the league with a very weak front court and he couldn't get enough PT to win ROY. And it's not foul trouble. He only averaged 2.5 fpg. The answer is simple, his team was WORSE with him on the court than when he was on the bench.

The award is ROY, not ROY/36. It's based on actual performance, not potential or hypotheticals. Based on actual performance, the award will go to Lillard and it won't be close. Not everyone who votes is an idiot. They don't all write for ESPN and Bleacher Report.

BNM

 

[Boise Blazer]

I think the fact that Im not pissed off by this must say a lot. As in its ridiculous. As mentioned before no one is saying that Davis isnt going to be or even isnt already a hell of player. But this is the 2012-2013 Rookie of the Year Award. And this season Lillard has done more and done more for his team. And until I see stats showing that Davis is having a defensive record breaking or defensive rookie elite year its not even worth debating.

 

[magnifier661]

We were an 8th seed when Ricky went down
Then we added andrei kirilenko, alexey shved, chase budinger, and Dante Cunningham to replace Wes johnson, Michael Beasley, and darko milicic.
So we have a better team now. Both Ricky and love start of the season hurt.
Pek and Ak miss around 15-20 games
Chase, one of our 2 floor spacers tears his meniscus game 6.
Adelmans wife starts having unexplained seizures.
Josh Howard tears his ACL. Love breaks his hand again.

But you Portland basketball geniuses can't recognize

Portland fans are the last fans you throw what ifs to. We've had our fair share of disappointing player injuries. Injuries are part if the game and you are only as good as the team that's on the floor.

Tough shit you had injuries. You give us a pass too? Doubt it!

 

[Rhal]

Ours were worse
Love>Roy
Ricky>oden

Oh this is just amazing. This post has made my week.

Maybe if you guys move to the east then you'd have a shot at the playoffs before hell freezes over

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[BrianFromWA]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

sherwood struass is a familiar name, he was from somewhere else.

dude is a fucking idiot though if he think Davis is ROY over Lillard. Thing is, he's not good enough for his opinion to matter, so getting "swirsky'd" isn't going to be getting "strauss'd".

 

[THE HCP]

Didn't Sherwood Struass create The Brady Bunch!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

dude is from Oakland too. He's about to get some gems dropped on him, yo (assuming they have internet in the OAK-town).

http://bleacherreport.com/users/858687-ethan-sherwood-strauss

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

ahh, dude is a history major from UC Berkley....obviously a hipster trying to be contrarian, he needs to be better at it though.

 

[Boise Blazer]

By the way I think its ironically funny that the Blazers just posted a video on Google + that includes Lillard scoring an and-1 against Davis. Although I also specially Davis blocking Lillard this season.

[video=youtube;8i6MWOWcuyk]

 

[Boise Blazer]

Im not sure if this was posted yet:

http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/page/weekenddime-130412-13/awards-ballot

He's a few days away from becoming just the fourth rookie in history to reach the finish line averaging better than 19 points and six assists, following in the footsteps of Allen Iverson (1996-97), Damon Stoudamire (1995-96) and a certain Oscar Robertson (1960-61).

He's also logged an eye-popping 3,012 minutes through 78 games, which is my favorite Damian Lillard stat.

Throw in all the injury torment endured by Anthony Davis, Andre Drummond, Bradley Beal and Dion Waiters -- who generally rank as the most eye-catching rookies not based in Portland -- and you can see why Lillard looks poised to be named just the third unanimous Rookie of the Year selection in league history.

Ralph Sampson in 1984, David Robinson in 1990 and Blake Griffin in 2011 are the only previous ROYs to win unanimously. Chris Paul fell one vote shy in 2006. If Lillard doesn't join them, after the six months he (and his competition) just had, somebody seriously mis-voted.

What we all really want to know, of course, is what the future holds for Davis and whether his seemingly unending succession of injuries in Year 1 has established a worrisome trend. Or if he's just getting it all out of his system as a Hornet before becoming a Pelican.

In the 64 games he did play, before a knee sprain this week ended his season, Davis averaged a solid 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks, good for a still-robust PER of 21.79.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Roy fell one vote shy in 2007, yeah? BTW, I think there's no way Lillard will be unanimously voted ROY. Davis's numbers are pretty darn good for a rookie big man, and he did play 64 games; it's not like he played 20.

 

[Boise Blazer]

http://www.nba.com/2013/news/featur...-and-a-chris-bosh/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt3a

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
ON THE MENU: Bradley Beal, Washington; Anthony Davis, New Orleans; Andre Drummond, Detroit; Damian Lillard, Portland; Dion Waiters, Cleveland
I'LL HAVE: Lillard.

An easy pick, with Portland's rookie lapping in the field in points and assists per game. The Blazers never wavered that the Weber State guard would come in and immediately solidify them at the game's most important position. They were right. After a few weeks of adjustments, Lillard became a handful at the offensive end, with a proclivity for taking over late in games.
Davis came on the second half of the season and actually produced more win shares than Lillard, but dealt with a number of injuries that limited his playing time. He's going to be a really good one.
Beal displayed the shooting range and shot-making ability the Wizards had hoped for, but couldn't stay healthy.
Drummond was a PER beast for Detroit, impacting games much sooner than anyone thought he would after a single inconsistent season in college, and may have shortened the Pistons' rebuild by a year or two.
Waiters and Kyrie Irving, the reigning Rookie of the Year, are going to be a dominant backcourt for the Cavaliers for years to come.

[video]http://www.nba.com/video/channels/a...ookie-of-the-month-damian-lillard.nba[/video]

 

[Boise Blazer]

Roy fell one vote shy in 2007, yeah? BTW, I think there's no way Lillard will be unanimously voted ROY. Davis's numbers are pretty good, and he did play 64 games; it's not like he played 20.

Yes, the Raptors guy I believe voted 1st for Bargs

 

[HailBlazers]

BTW, I think there's no way Lillard will be unanimously voted ROY. Davis's numbers are pretty darn good for a rookie big man, and he did play 64 games; it's not like he played 20.

Sorry, but there is no way Lillard won't be unanimously voted ROY. Winning the skills competition, getting praise from the league's best, and garnering the consecutive rookie of the month awards has put Dame in a spotlight much brighter than Brandon in his rookie year. Bottom line, as great as Davis's future is there is simply no argument outside of Lillard.

 

[B-Roy]

Sorry, but there is no way Lillard won't be unanimously voted ROY. Winning the skills competition, getting praise from the league's best, and garnering the consecutive rookie of the month awards has put Dame in a spotlight much brighter than Brandon in his rookie year. Bottom line, as great as Davis's future is there is simply no argument outside of Lillard.

There's always an argument, and I'm sure you can count on someone to vote based on it. (Or vote based on being a homer)

 

[BBert]

This isn't the vote for who will have the biggest impact in the NBA going forward. It's the vote for who was the rookie of the year this season, based on how they played and the impact they had on the NBA this season. The answer is Lillard. It would take a real douche to vote otherwise, IMO.

 

[THE HCP]

It's called the Swirsky Affect!


Sent from HCPs Baller-Ass iPhone 5...FAMS!

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Anyone who could remotely considered a contender for even a single vote was injured too much.

 

[Pinwheel1]

This isn't the vote for who will have the biggest impact in the NBA going forward. It's the vote for who was the rookie of the year this season, based on how they played and the impact they had on the NBA this season. The answer is Lillard. It would take a real douche to vote otherwise, IMO.

How many members of the media vote? There are a lot of douche's out there. There will be one that votes against him knowing he will win, but not wanting it to be unanimous. They do it all the time when voting for the Hall of Fame in baseball.

 

[Denny Crane]

Roy fell one vote shy in 2007, yeah? BTW, I think there's no way Lillard will be unanimously voted ROY. Davis's numbers are pretty darn good for a rookie big man, and he did play 64 games; it's not like he played 20.

Davis is 19 years old, too.

Lillard may get MVP votes.

 

[julius]

Sorry if this was addressed earlier, but here's an interesting note. Davis played more games in his rookie year than Brandon Roy did.

 

[Rhal]

Anyone who thinks Lillard shouldn't get all the first place votes needs to relook at the post I made listing what he has accomplished this year.
He should win it unanimously but he won't. Some , yes ill call them dumbasses, dumbass person who is a big Cleveland fan and votes for Dion Waiters, same thing in Washington, same thing in NO. We saw it happen to broy it'll happen to Lillard even though he deserves to be unanimously.
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[Boise Blazer]

Anyone who thinks Lillard shouldn't get all the first place votes needs to relook at the post I made listing what he has accomplished this year.
He should win it unanimously but he won't. Some , yes ill call them dumbasses, dumbass person who is a big Cleveland fan and votes for Dion Waiters, same thing in Washington, same thing in NO. We saw it happen to broy it'll happen to Lillard even though he deserves to be unanimously.
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Agreed and as I mentioned before, until I see a list like that for Davis that shows how elite of a year he had then there is no comparison