I don't get the Ennis MVP talk and I'm generally as big of an orange homer as anyone else. He is a great player for a freshman but for like the last 4 or 5 games in a row now he has had no impact on the game for huge stretches. Yes he come up big im some key moments but when I think player of the year I don't think of a player whom I forget is on the court for over half the game. When we had Melo there was no way you could forget he was on the court at any point. This year CJ and even Grant have more consistent impact on games that Ennis... they generally do something good every few minutes in the game.
Ennis is an amazing freshman point guard who is not that consistent but comes up huge at the end of games. This makes him a very valuable player with huge potential but in my book not player of the year material. He needs to figure out how to have more impact on the game throughout so that we don't need buzzer beater heroics to win the game, he needs to work on the J which is too much of a set shot in my opinion and he needs to figure out how to speed up the tempo and take advantage of open court opportunities to get us easy buckets.
Just my two cents...
I think this sells him a little short (in particular, he's pretty damn consistent). But I agree that he is not the POY in college basketball this year. For a lot of good reasons, he is getting most of the credit for the team's performance and that excellent performance is magnified a lot because of the undefeated record. But this is a loaded team he is at the controls of. I think with Christmas's emergence, he has one of the top-3 players in the conference at every position. He has an All-American at the 3, a guy who would be an All-American at the 4 if he stuck around next year (though he won't), a quickly-improving Burger Boy at the 5, and then a guy capable of going for 30+ at the 2. There are maybe 3 or 4 guys in college basketball who could have done what Fair did in the last minute of the game last night; if he hadn't, no one would be talking about Ennis tonight. Without Cooney's nearly-single-handed performance in the ND game, the team isn't undefeated and the hype is dialed back at least a bit.