Kevin Love

kidbourbon · Feb 26, 2012

Man, that guy sure has a sweet shooting stroke. If I were coaching him, I'd certainly give him the green light to shoot threes.

NashVol11 · Feb 27, 2012

Couldn't agree more.

NashVol11 · Apr 6, 2012

He really outplayed Blake Griffin tonight too. 4-13 for 10 points vs. 10-19 for 30...

kidbourbon · Mar 6, 2012

Outplayed him last night too. Los Angeles Clippers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves - Box Score - March 05, 2012 - ESPN

Los Angeles: B. Griffin 26 Pts, 12 Reb, 3 Ast, 1 Blk
Minnesota: K. Love 39 Pts, 17 Reb, 2 Ast

LawVol13 · Mar 6, 2012

kidbourbon said: ↑

Outplayed him last night too. Los Angeles Clippers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves - Box Score - March 05, 2012 - ESPN

Los Angeles: B. Griffin 26 Pts, 12 Reb, 3 Ast, 1 Blk
Minnesota: K. Love 39 Pts, 17 Reb, 2 Ast
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Shot too many threes, imo, jmo.

kidbourbon · Apr 3, 2012

Bill Simmons discussing Kevin Love in his MVP column found here: Who should raise the MVP award over his head? - Grantland

3. Kevin Love (+1200)
Fact: Love is averaging 26.5 points and 13.6 rebounds with 45/39/82 shooting splits right now. This seems impossible, I know. I checked five times. It's definitely true.

Fact: Neither Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Charles Barkley, Chris Webber, Larry Bird nor Karl Malone ever averaged 27 points and 13 rebounds per game in the same season.

Fact: Love's low-post game has really turned into something special. He can make 20-foot stepbacks, jump hooks or up-and-unders. He can back guys down and get easy five-footers. He can pull bigger guys away from the hoop and shoot 3s over them. And if you double-team him, he's one of the best low-post passers we have.

Fact: I'm not a giant fan of adjusted plus-minus stats, especially for individual players, but it's worth mentioning that Minnesota averages about 107 points per 100 possessions when Love plays and about 97 points per 100 when he sits (one of the highest discrepancies in the league). Check out this really confusing and über-dorky page for more details. [FN14]

[FN14]: The Point Forward » Posts Is Kevin Love worthy of MVP honors? «

Fact: Even after Minnesota's inspiring postseason run was derailed by Kobe pulling a Bernard Pollard on Ricky Rubio's right knee, Love simply refused to allow them to stink — and by the way, when the rest of your top eight is Luke Ridnour, JJ Barea, Nik Pekovic, Darko Milicic, Mike Beasley, Martell Webster and Wesley "What Happened to Me????" Johnson, you stink — averaging a Moses-at-his-apex-like 31 and 15 for the month of March. 31 and 15???????? Sorry, I have to swear … ARE YOU [uck fay]ING KIDDING ME??? [FN16]

[FN16]: In March, Love became the first player in NBA history to lead the league in scoring, rebounding AND made 3s. Even Larry Legend has to be mildly impressed by that one.

Fact: Love sent an Oklahoma City game into overtime two weeks ago by posting up 25 feet from the basket, sealing his guy off, then draining a buzzer-beating stepback 3 that was so blatantly ripped off from Larry Bird that he should have just worn a blond permafro wig. If you're ripping off the Legend successfully, you have my attention.

Fact: Watching Love and Rubio run high screens was my single favorite thing about this season. They were on another level of … everything. It was just sublime. I can't tell you how much I loved it. It was basketball porn. DVDs of Love-Rubio high screens should be edited and handed out at basketball camps with the title, "How to Run High Screens."

Fact: In back-to-back summers, Chris Wallace traded Love's rights for O.J. Mayo's rights17 and drafted Hasheem Thabeet over James Harden and Ricky Rubio … and somehow, Memphis is still my favorite 2012 sleeper. I know, this has nothing to do with Love's MVP campaign. I just didn't know where else to put it in the column. The Love/Mayo swap doesn't get mentioned nearly enough.

Fact: Love rates off the charts on the most crucial MVP question: Would the difference in his team's victory total drop dramatically if you replaced him with a half-decent player all season? The answer? Hell yes. You can't blame Love because he's playing for a .500 team in a stacked conference, or because that team fell out of the playoff race only because its second-best player went down. That's a 13-win team if you flipped him with, say, Brandon Bass. It's true.

Fact: Despite everything you just read, Love can't make First-Team All-NBA because of our next two guys.
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NashVol11 · Apr 4, 2012

And yet, since Rubio's injury they've managed the remarkable feat of actually being worse than the Jarrett Jack-led New Orleans Hornets.

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