JazzMan

I've seen this on other team's pages, so thought we could do it here...

What are your nominations for the following awards:

MVP - Andrei Kirilenko (Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Harpring had stayed healthy)

MIP - Raja Bell (Tough one this. It was a toss-up between Bell and Arroyo. Bell gets it for being a key contributor towards the end of the season)

DPOY - AK47 (Nuff said)

ROY - Raul Lopez (With 5 to choose from this was not a straightforward decision. None of the 5 was a bust, although Borchardt was a disappointment for his injuries at least. Mo Williams was great in limited minutes, and Ben Handlogten went from being a complete no-namer to a useful backup C. Sasha was a bit too inconsistent to get the award,)

6th Man - Raja Bell (Raul was the only other with a real claim to this, but Bell was definitely the main man off the bench)

Feel free to make up any other awards you choose.

SiLeNcE

I couldnt agree more.

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JGKoblenz

My list:

MVP - AK47

MIP - Carlo Arroyo

DPOY - AK47

ROY - Raul Lopez

6th Man - Raja Bell

PS: If the coach position was considered "player" my vote for MVP would be to Sloan, he was obviously pretty valuable this season.

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COY - Jerry Sloan

Arclite

Not a bad idea.. I might do something like this on the Suns board here pretty soon. Here's mine:

MVP - Andrei. Not much to say, if I had to give out the second place MVP it would be hard but I'd go with Bell.. he was so huge this year for us on offense and defense, and even though he's fairly inconsistent he was indisposable this year.

MIP - Andrei. This is a tough one too because Raja and CA both had some enormous statistical increases - but I knew as soon as last summer that Arroyo was going to be a fine point based on his play at the qualifiers, and Bell, much like Harpring was never given a chance to show any real offensive game, and him averaging 11ppg doesn't surprise me all that much because he's a nice outside shooter. Andrei's passing is what improved the most, and even though he still really needs to work on it, he showed that he was at least capable of hitting outside of the paint, and the second half he seemed to shoot a lot better from 3pt land.

DPOY - Andrei. Duh.

ROY - Andr.. err, Raul Lopez. As good Arroyo was this season, I actually think the team played marginally better with Lopez out there. Not a tough decesion for me, Lopez really had a nice season although the TO's are frustrating.

6th man - Raja. He was so big for us off the bench, brought some tremendous defense as well as some unexpected offense.

Best in-season pickup - Mikki. We wouldn't have been as close to the playoffs as we were without signing Mikki.. he's an energizer, and I hope (and I bet) he's back next year. Gira had some huge games, but he could have been a whole lot better considering the free reign he had within the offense. Plus I miss D-Steve, inconsistent as he was.