Originally Posted by
kisada
only thing i'd nitpick about personally is that i think holiday and middleton are pretty much in same tier, because jrue's defense is god-tier and unimpeachable. agree w/pretty much the rest.
finals mvps are always sorta weird. you get guys getting them by default, mostly because the idiot media viewers sitting in the arena don't really know what to do when there isn't someone averaging 30 points a game for the series (another example of how casual viewers just don't understand defense). there was a picture a while back where one of the voters put iggy and then it said something like "by default???" anyway, ben wallace was clearly the most important player in that series. the other thing i'd add is the context of those exact series: two ENORMOUS underdogs beat back two of the ultimate juggernauts (shaq/kobe) and obviously the first iteration of the heat big 3.