PLAYER OF THE WEEK WATCH - Week 9

	TEAM	WHY	WHY NOT	STATS
Lebron James PER 27.22 MVP	-	He's dominant. He lead the team with 25 points/game last week on almost SEVENTY percent shooting. It's hard to narrow LeBron into the category of "perimeter player", but a wing putting up 25 points per night on nearly 70% is insane. He also took down possibly the best team in the league - the Knicks.	The Cavs aren't quite the dynasty they were a couple of years ago, but LeBron should be able to come up with better than a 2-2 week when surrounded by Drummond, Parker, Ibaka, and others. One loss was to Milwaukee and the other to the Lakers - both good teams, but if you want to win an award you've got to win games you shouldn't, let alone the ones you should.	PTS REB AST STL BLK
James Harden PER 37.66 MVP	-	He get 7 boards and 9.5 assists per night while shooting over 50% from the field and still managed to score almost 22 per. Playing next to a ball-dominant all-star point guard, he was able to almost average 10 assists for the week. The Knicks are the best team in the league, and this is their best player.	Can you give one of the Knicks stars an award when they had their worst week of the season (record-wise)? He's a scorer and didn't even lead them in scoring. Their wins were against Detroit and Atlanta, and losses were against Cleveland and the Lakers. Give awards for greatness - not barely doing what you were expected to do.	PTS REB AST STL BLK
Rudy Gay PER 11.91 MVP	-	Rudy Gay is still doing Gay things - just outside of the top 5 in scoring. The Heat missed him so badly that they wen from looking like a decent team to one of the worst in the league without him. Maybe also factor in a sympathy vote here - considering the Heat record and Rudy's newly announced injury, Proid is going to need some kind of trophy to keep him out of the dumps.	They were 0-4. I'm pretty sure there has never been a player of the week to not win a single game. It's just counter-intuitive. Maybe if he averaged 50 points per game, but this was his usual stat-line, which is great, but not enough to garner a real vote while sitting at 0-4 for the week.	PTS REB AST STL BLK
Reggie Jackson PER 19.48 MVP	-	Finally one of these guys has a 4-0 record to get behind. And he's got some pretty solid stats to back it up. 48% from the field and 47% from three is phenomenal for a point guard these days. The Kings cleared up the point guard logjam and Reggie is rewarding their confidence.	He's the only guy on the list not to pass 20 points per game and he also didn't have double-digit assists or rebounds. To add onto it, they didn't manage to take down a single team with even a .500 record.	PTS REB AST STL BLK
Paul George PER 25.94 MVP	-	Minnesota is no longer a top-heavy team as they've gone to a model that has lots of good pieces around PG, instead of a couple of other stars followed by a quick drop-off. This is his team and there is no question. He put up 25/4/4 and lead the team to a .500 record to keep their narrow division lead over Denver intact.	What was intended to create increased reliance on the superstar looks like it may have just decreased the efficiency. He shot 40% from the field and 21% from deep. At the time of writing, not a single team on their week 9 schedule has a winning record either.	PTS REB AST STL BLK
Louis Williams PER 13.34 MVP	-	Perseverance - Lou is having a great season despite seeing his most talented teammates depart and hearing his own name not-shyly pop up in trade rumors constantly. He lead a rebuilding team to a .500 record for the week. They finally gave him the starting nod recently, and he put up 28 points to reward them.	The Mavs beat the 12th and 13th place teams in the Western Conference and needed OT to do it in both games, this could have easily been an 0-4 week against a pretty easy schedule had a few bounces gone differently. He also only shot 35%, which is going to scare away a few voters that have always seen him as a stat-stuffing scorer.	PTS REB AST STL BLK