Yes but we still only rank 9th with him on. The award has traditionally gone to a top 3 defense’s anchor. The wolves defense was bad last season due to gobert’s injury and transformed to best in the league with him healthy. He got the whole team to buy in. It’s his year, Wemby will have plenty of opportunities.
DirtyWizardsBrew
Apparently, from what I understand, the rules/criteria for DPOY essentially seem to be: *best defensive player on the best defensive team —* ***oh, and the team also has to be one of the most successful/best teams.***
While, what I personally feel it should be determined by is: *player with the unequivocal* ***highest defensive impact*** *to their team’s defensive rating, coupled with how that player’s defensive stats* ***compare to the rest of the league’s best defenders.***
I feel like the NBA could save everyone a lot of headaches and tedious arguments by just having the stupid fucking official criteria for the award written down somewhere. I’d have a much easier time accepting this whole *”individual award that’s actually also kind of a team award”* thing with DPOY if that were the case.
drippo-potamus
I mean, I get it. But I know if the roles were reversed and we were a top team but the defensive player of the year went to a last place team, we would be upset.
msc49
I think that now that Wemby has pretty much locked up ROTY, we’re digging for argument for DPOY. Wolves are thee best defensive team in the NBA. Gobert is their best defensive player. Spurs are not a good defensive team, but Wemby is thee best defensive player. Wemby’s defensive can’t make up for the rest of the team’s defense. No doubt in my mind that Wemby will eventually be a mutil-time DPOY. His impact is undeniable even as a rookie.
He will probably get some 1st place DPOY voted, but we can’t ignore what Gobert or his impact. Before Gobert got there, they were a middle of the pack defense. Even with KAT out, they are still in the running for the 1 seed. Let them have their time. Ours will come, hopefully sooner than later.
Till then, let’s keep pounding the rock!
Bonesawisready5
I don’t get it coz the name of the award is PLAYER not team
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Yes but we still only rank 9th with him on. The award has traditionally gone to a top 3 defense’s anchor. The wolves defense was bad last season due to gobert’s injury and transformed to best in the league with him healthy. He got the whole team to buy in. It’s his year, Wemby will have plenty of opportunities.
Apparently, from what I understand, the rules/criteria for DPOY essentially seem to be: *best defensive player on the best defensive team —* ***oh, and the team also has to be one of the most successful/best teams.***
While, what I personally feel it should be determined by is: *player with the unequivocal* ***highest defensive impact*** *to their team’s defensive rating, coupled with how that player’s defensive stats* ***compare to the rest of the league’s best defenders.***
I feel like the NBA could save everyone a lot of headaches and tedious arguments by just having the stupid fucking official criteria for the award written down somewhere. I’d have a much easier time accepting this whole *”individual award that’s actually also kind of a team award”* thing with DPOY if that were the case.
I mean, I get it. But I know if the roles were reversed and we were a top team but the defensive player of the year went to a last place team, we would be upset.
I think that now that Wemby has pretty much locked up ROTY, we’re digging for argument for DPOY. Wolves are thee best defensive team in the NBA. Gobert is their best defensive player. Spurs are not a good defensive team, but Wemby is thee best defensive player. Wemby’s defensive can’t make up for the rest of the team’s defense. No doubt in my mind that Wemby will eventually be a mutil-time DPOY. His impact is undeniable even as a rookie.
He will probably get some 1st place DPOY voted, but we can’t ignore what Gobert or his impact. Before Gobert got there, they were a middle of the pack defense. Even with KAT out, they are still in the running for the 1 seed. Let them have their time. Ours will come, hopefully sooner than later.
Till then, let’s keep pounding the rock!
I don’t get it coz the name of the award is PLAYER not team