I'm hoping this award evolves as Sportvu analytics become more prevailent. I'd love to see stats not available before become popular stats. Things along the lines like individual opponent FG%, drives against, % shots vs passes.
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I'm hoping this award evolves as Sportvu analytics become more prevailent. I'd love to see stats not available before become popular stats. Things along the lines like individual opponent FG%, drives against, % shots vs passes.
Image, too. You've got to give off the appearance that you're intense, even menacing.Quote:
Originally Posted by 100%duncan
No way Bowen (who's defense was obviously aided by Duncan's mere presence behind him) not winning one tops Duncan not winning one. In fact, I'd have a hard time ever giving a perimeter player the award because no matter how good they are, they can't match the impact of an elite big.
Duncan not having at least a few is the biggest awards oversight I can think of, in any sport. People can knock the most common defensive metrics all they want (and for sure, they're flawed), but the fact that he's at or near the top of all of them and has either anchored or co-anchored a bunch of the greatest single season defenses in league history and hasn't won one is laughable.
What did you disagree with?:lol..Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurs 4 The Win
Disagree. This same media claims a new LeBron kobe mj every year. This media still glorifies ppg and aau... come on manQuote:
Originally Posted by Malik Hairston
Stupid media award.. Jordan got one but not Pippen.. It's all the media..
Obviously there's still an abundance of stupid media members, most of them are still from the antiquated coverage of the NBA, but most of the "new media" members actually use quantifiable numbers and logic to vote for awards, etc(like Zach Lowe, for instance)..Quote:
Originally Posted by tholdren
There will always be the media members that overhype Kobe for unquantifiable traits like his "will to win":lol..
Marc Gasol wasn't a bad choice, at all..he was a little overrated as an overall player that year, but his choice as DPOY was fine, he earned it..
Realistically, you couldn't have given it to Timmy that season, as Gasol played a much higher amount of minutes, which can't be ignored..a difference of 700 minutes played is a huge disparity..
The media is worse nowadays, its Lebron cock sucking around the clockQuote:
Originally Posted by Malik Hairston
Unfortunately for Pippen his best defensive years came during a great age of defensive centers where beasts like Olajuwon, Robinson, Mutombo, and Mourning were roaming the paint racking up blocks. I thought Pippen was a lock for DPOY in '95 considering the Bulls frontline was decimated for most of the season and he still anchored that team to the #2 ranked defense but Mutombo's 4 block average and trademark finger wag was too much for the media to ignore.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbreiden83080
As opposed to Kobe cock sucking?..Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurs 4 The Win
The difference now is that we have much more media outlets to get our basketball coverage and information..there's also a different breed of media that follows every team, not just the Heat, Lakers, etc(like the previous media)..
The NBA coaches voted Noah and Chandler ahead of Gasol for All-NBA. In fact, if they hadn't tied, Gasol wouldn't have made second team. This is the same year the media gave him DPOY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malik Hairston