Voting before the season ends is dumb.

My Tips

MVP = Cotton. Just. Adams if he'd played the whole season.

Coach has to Roth

MIP = JLA

6th = XRM

Damo, I'm going with Cooks, but Illi has been good.

Rookie? Gotta be Dieng surely?

1st team
Adams
Cotton
Cooks
Law
JLA

2nd team
McCarron
Josh Adams
Creek
Patterson
Franks

MVP = Cotton. Just. Adams if he'd played the whole season.

Adams MVP easy choice sorry Wildcats fans and he outplayed Bryce in the Jungle!!! The other awards may see some politics or iffy selections but Adams is this years MVP.

MVP: Adams
COTY: Roth
MIP: Pinder
BSM: Ili
DPOTY: Cooks
ROTY: Dieng

MVP: Cotton
COTY: Roth
MIP: Lual-Acuil
BSM: Rathan-Mayes
BDP: Cooks
ROTY: Dieng

Adams was MVP of the second half of the season, but couldn't throw a beachball in the ocean in the first half. Cotton consistent at MVP level the entire season except for a small number of games.

Adams
Vickerman
JLA
Ili
Ili
Kuol.

MVP: Jaylen Adams
COTY: Scott Roth
MIP: Jo Lual-Acuil Jr
BSM: Shea Ili
DPOTY: Shea Ili
ROTY: Ousmane Dieng

I think all the awards could go to anyone, however, if Roth doesn't win COTY, there will be an uproar, absolutely deserves it!

If Roth wasn't in the equation though, you'd have to think it goes to Chase Buford.

There's no question that Adams has outplayed Cotton this season. But if we still had the old system, this wouldn't even be a conversation. Those missing games would nix any chance he had.
The new system makes it interesting, because it's up to the voters to factor it in. It should be close. I won't be surprised either way.

On, and if you want to look at Stats, keep in mind that Adams barely cracks a mention when considering season aggregates.

Adams
Roth
JLA
Ili
Ili
Kuol.

The new system gives Adams a chance, because the people voting might forget how he played early. Under a game-by-game system Cotton would have an insurmountable lead by half way.

We have to factor in the head to head for the MVPs and Adams killed Bryce who I think is arguably the greatest import of all time. They both lost to Adelaide but Bryce player horrible. I know people love Bryce he's basically and Aussie to most but this year he wasn’t the MVP especially when Adams was on the floor. What he did to Bryce in the jungle I’ve been watching NBL since 2010 before BC arrived and I’ve never seen him loose a match up like that. Adams-MVP easy too if sports bet has a good line Id bet a paycheque hahahah

To me... Adams isn't the MVP when he misses over a qtr of the season, and played average at the start of it. He only got going halfway through the season.

Bryce is also played completely differently then most players in the league, to put up his numbers with the level of attention he gets night in night out is really impressive. Adams rarely copped any attention.

Clear choice for me... Cotton.

I think that Xavier Cooks has been just as valuable to Sydney than Adams and it was evident first hand in last nights game. Cooks deserves to be in the running for MVP. His stats and value all over the court t this season has been unbelievable .Cooks in my opinion is the MVP !!!

Adams hasn't missed over a quarter of the season though he's played 21 games already.

I agree about Cooks he's the actual best player in the league but I guess the NBL didn't want to put two Kings players in the Top 3 finalists so threw Cotton in there as a sop to Perth fans.

If you're going to suggest the NBL is overriding the coach/captain votes, then the awards become meaningless and we might as well not bother.

Hasn't Travers played a few seasons by now, and he is a finalist for ROTY?

The NBL have always had quite rubbery definitions of what constitutes a 'rookie' but Travers has been a DP until now this is his first season on the roster.

oh okay

"If you're going to suggest the NBL is overriding the coach/captain votes, then the awards become meaningless and we might as well not bother."

Have the captains and coaches haven't voted yet? Or do they vote on the finalists as selected by a panel?

Presumably the votes haven't been cast yet, considering there are still some very important games left in the season

The votes are in. The "finalist" are the top three votewinners.

That's ridiculous if true

It is true but the NBL have always fucked around with MVP voting to the point I don't know or care how they do it anymore. It was farcical the year they gave it to Bogut when it should've been Casper Ware, purely a PR stunt.

But it goes further than that remember when they gave MVP to Brian Wethers putting up numbers on a mediocre Hunter Pirates team that finished 8th. Or Brian Conklin winning MVP on a Townsville team that finished 6th in an 8 team league.

United were tipped to miss finals, finished minor premiers. Roth talked about JJs making the finals, probably won't. Roth has been remarkable but the old stager Vickerman has got him.

The votes are in. The "finalist" are the top three votewinners.

That's ridiculous if true

D2.0 JLA beat Ili for best 6th man last year so the 2 players doesn't mean anything

Yes, unfortunate it misses a couple of games, but that's a timing issue.

And ultimately the voters are supposed to assess the season holistically, so basing it on 25 or 26 games is probably ok.
Also means that teams like Sydney and United can rest stars.

This started when they had the awards ceremony mere hours after the last game of the season. No idea what their excuse is this year.

It's also presumably the real reason they moved away from game by game voting for MVP.

NBL "2022 Andrew Gaze MVP and Awards Night" Live Stream on Twitter

Europcar Referee of the Year: Vaughan Mayberry

All NBL Second Team: Dellavedova, Adams, Goulding, Creek, Cooks.

Best Defensive Player: Antonius Cleveland

Most Improved Player: Keanu Pinder

Best Sixth Man: Shea Ili

"Gametime by Kmart award" (for work in the community): Jack McVeigh

All NBL First Team: Cotton, Adams, Cleveland, Law, Lual-Acuil Jr.

Rookie of the Year: Bul Kuol

(I probably should have made it clearer that the Adams in the 2nd team was the Josh variety)

Executive of the Year: Simon Edwards (NZB)

Fans MVP: Kai Sotto

Coach of the Year: Scott Roth

No surprise Sotto got Fans MVP. Was never going to be a contest.

Andrew Gaze MVP Award: Jaylen Adams

The entire show is a colossal waste of time. They only got speeches from two award winners, both pretapes?