Is Jrue Holiday a dark horse candidate for Finals MVP? | Good Word with Goodwill

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Dan Devine to discuss Celtics guard Jrue Holiday’s candidacy for Finals MVP and why he’s been so effective against the Mavericks. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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I do want to touch on giving Drew Holiday a lot of love here, like in the same way that you talk about Jason Tatum doing all of the things except for scoring, Jrue Holiday is doing all of the things and, and scoring right.

He’s making all these critical plays.

He’s defending Kyrie Irving making that, making those shots really difficult for us and Kyrie to go left, even though Kyrie might be the greatest, you know, in the paint score, you know, with both hands, ambidextrous, all the other type of stuff is he’s making it look very difficult and he’s kind of inside track for finals MVP.

If we were to do such a thing, like I just think missing peace because if he’s your fourth or fifth best player, then baby, you got problems on the other side.

Problems.

Absolutely finishes with 26 points.

I think it was 11 of 14 from the floor, um 11 rebounds and it’s so like you, you know, you, you think of, of Jrue Holiday and you think of him functionally and as we’ve seen him for his whole career as a point guard, right?

Or a combo guard at sort of, at most, like on the ball in Boston, he’s like, you know, it’s the guy that he’s essentially replacing Marcus Smart used to joke around and call himself a stretch six and where it’s like, what position is Jrue Holiday?

Well, where did a lot of his buckets come from tonight?

From the dunker spot?

Right?

He’s like, he’s facing the floor under the basket.

Um, and I think he, it’s, it’s kind of fascinating because he’s a player where when the the ecosystem is functioning, he looks, you know, he is, he is like the benefit share of a lot of it.

So I, I don’t want to diminish Drew Holiday’s individual contributions because those 26 and 11 that was gigantic and to say nothing of the defensive plays, as you mentioned,…

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Publish date : 2024-06-10 07:47:18

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