KING IN ARABIC
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Recency bias, “what have you done for me lately”
If Monk got hurt in the first two weeks of the season, it likely doesn’t matter. He gets hurt down the stretch when everyone remembers and is watching with Eagle eyes.
It’s not the right way to look at it, and I’m not defending it, but you’re deluding yourself if you think timing isn’t what played a major factor with this choice.
If Monk got hurt in the first two weeks of the season, it likely doesn’t matter. He gets hurt down the stretch when everyone remembers and is watching with Eagle eyes.
It’s not the right way to look at it, and I’m not defending it, but you’re deluding yourself if you think timing isn’t what played a major factor with this choice.
So looking at the actual voting, it appears that one of the 100 voters actually didn't vote at all. Of the remaining 99, 7 clowns left off Monk and 5 clowns left off Reid (some of these may be the same clowns). Since it was so close, I'd be interested to see what the totals looked like from only serious voters (i.e. those who included both Monk and Reid).
I was listening to The Ringer's Howard Beck on the radio yesterday and he brought up a similar point that's worth considering.
He said indeed many voters including himself had the belief that team success should weigh heavily into the best 6th man discussion. For how forgetful in general Sacramento Kings are in the major media, I don't doubt that some voters simply looked at the T'Wolves' current trajectory in the Playoffs versus the Kings being at home and decided that, fair or not, Naz Reid should win due to Monk's injury directly contributed to their inability to get to the Playoffs.
He said indeed many voters including himself had the belief that team success should weigh heavily into the best 6th man discussion. For how forgetful in general Sacramento Kings are in the major media, I don't doubt that some voters simply looked at the T'Wolves' current trajectory in the Playoffs versus the Kings being at home and decided that, fair or not, Naz Reid should win due to Monk's injury directly contributed to their inability to get to the Playoffs.
Punishing Monk for missing the last batch of games and it leading to us falling out of the playoffs, I sort of get it.
Rewarding a guy for starting, I don't. Was Naz the #2 pick in February? (I don't know)
Did Naz win because he was the best player in the reserve role or because he proved he was capable of being starting caliber when an all-star starter went down?
Rewarding a guy for starting, I don't. Was Naz the #2 pick in February? (I don't know)
Did Naz win because he was the best player in the reserve role or because he proved he was capable of being starting caliber when an all-star starter went down?
Monk losing out on the Sixth Man award by the smallest margin in the history of the current voting format is emblematic of how this whole Kings season has gone. Hopefully this isn't how his stay in Sacramento ends. He's as important to the team culture as anyone else in that locker room, coach or player.
I expected nothing less. Nothing ever comes easy for this organization and the T-Wolves are everyone’s favorite team to root for seems like. It’s too bad because in my eyes he deserved it. Had we had 50 wins, I think he gets it. Team success probably played a role, even if it was a minimal one. In a race this tight, it was enough to make him lose it.
I ran the numbers and posted them somewhere earlier in this thread, I think. The Monk+starters lineup actually performed worse than those with Ellis or Huerter this year. Last season, though, the Monk lineup outperformed the Huerter lineup. Would be curious what is behind that, it certainly wasn’t what I expected.
