MVP talk gets murky when you have a player like Curry that is individually great, but much of his benefit is on the team game, especially when he's actually a point guard (not just in the position due to size). Sometimes, like over the course of the regular season, he's the best player on the team and the most valuable. But sometimes a smaller sample size shows other players are better stat-wise which is what we usually use to determine bestness, especially in a tough playoff series where the other team is focusing on shutting him down and he needs other players to step up. But that's his game at it's core. Yeah, he's a lights out shooter, but he's still a point guard focusing on distributing and running the offense on the court and I believe an off-court heart of the team the way Green is (sometimes) on the court.
When a players core game is making other players and the team better directly, not just indirectly by their individual greatness, can we really fault them when the rest of the team does exactly what their point guard is trying to get them to do? It might sound strange, but sometimes I almost think Curry would get more credit if he weren't such a good shooter because then when he had an off night or tough series everyone wouldn't just look at his shooting stats and wonder what was wrong with him but still focus on all the other things he'd be doing that a true point guard is supposed to do.
MVP on a team that is so team oriented isn't ever very clear.
When a players core game is making other players and the team better directly, not just indirectly by their individual greatness, can we really fault them when the rest of the team does exactly what their point guard is trying to get them to do? It might sound strange, but sometimes I almost think Curry would get more credit if he weren't such a good shooter because then when he had an off night or tough series everyone wouldn't just look at his shooting stats and wonder what was wrong with him but still focus on all the other things he'd be doing that a true point guard is supposed to do.
MVP on a team that is so team oriented isn't ever very clear.