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Oh wait, it's a serious thread?
No, he won't be an MVP candidate. If anything, CBS is more likely to win coach of the year. Isaiah has a strong chance of SMOY and he might almost be an all star. But if Jamaal Crawford and JR Smith and Manu Ginobili have never been MVP candidates, then odds are, IT4 won't either.
At his peak Manu's Per 36 stats were comparable to, but still worse than, Isaiah's when he was with us last year. Crawford's numbers are worse than Manu's, and Smith's are worse than Crawford's. Isaiah's Per 36 stats were actually nearly identical to Steph Curry's last year. While I don't think it's reasonable to try and make a case for Isaiah as an MVP candidate, your comparisons are off-base as well.
Off-base? My reasons for comparing them is that 1) those guys are good enough to start, 2) their main role is to be a spark plug off the bench, 3) they can fill it up in a hurry and 4) they have deservingly won 6th man of the year awards. That sounds like a way more apt comparison than comparing IT4 to Steph Curry.
As you probably know, but conveniently don't bring up, there have been plenty of per-36 monsters that don't keep up that level of efficiency when you actually give them 36 minutes.
Sorry, I should have been more clear as the reasons why you compared them are valid. My point is that (offensively) Isaiah is better than the 3 guys you named. And even if his Per 36 numbers don't translate, here are some raw numbers from each of these guys' SMOY seasons compared to Isaiah on our team last year:
Isaiah with Boston: 19 points, 5.4 assists, 2.1 rebounds, and .6 steals in just
26 MPManu: 19.5 points, 4.5 assists, 4.8 rebounds, and 1.5 steals in
31.1 MPCrawford: 18.6 points, 3.2 assists, 2.3 rebounds, and .9 steals in
30.3 MPSmith: 18.1 points, 2.7 assists, 5.3 rebounds, and 1.3 steals in
33.5 MPThese three 6th man winners averaged 31.6 MP between them, 5 more minutes than Isaiah averaged last year. Personally, I believe that Isaiah should get 30-32 coming off the bench next year. If we extrapolate out his stats for the 31.6 MP we get:
Isaiah's stats based on 2014/15 BOS stats if he got 31.6 MP: 23.1 points, 6.6 assists, 2.6 rebounds, and .7 steals
Edit: My point was also not to say that he's anywhere near the player that Steph Curry is, but rather to point out just how ridiculous his offensive numbers were last year.