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Don't get me wrong, I think it's ridiculous that Bruce hasn't won the ing award yet, but I don't want to take it out on Ben, because he's a heck of a player. The voters are lazy, but what voters aren't?
Exactly...
Don't get me wrong, I think it's ridiculous that Bruce hasn't won the ing award yet, but I don't want to take it out on Ben, because he's a heck of a player. The voters are lazy, but what voters aren't?
Same thing happened with Mutombo. Don't tell me he was better than Mourning all those years.
And Mark Eaton. The guy had mobility that made Rasho look like a ballerina, but because he stayed in one place a blocked a lot of shots = defensive player of the year.
It's also a crime that DRob only won it once. Robinson was probably the second-best defensive center of all time.
I dont think anyone here is saying it is ridiculous that Ben Wallace won, he deserved a nomination and is a fine defensive player....but it is complete bull that Bowen DIDN'T win - if you get my meaning.
He has been screwed year in and year out by the voting dolts. I agree with your acessment that they probobly don't have the opportunity to see what Bowen does game after game to the superstars of the NBA.
If Bowen got his due from the media things might be different but Bowen along with the rest of the team get no respect from the national media and it completely boggles my mind.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_17275.shtml
My response to this BS
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They had to give detroit some kind of award for a great regular season. Ben is a best team defensive player no one can change a game defensively like ben, althougt bruce deserves it too but if its ben over bruce should be able to live with that.
no, that's david cross! i guess everyone has to whine about this because bruce won't? we have a series to play here.
WOW, DPOY..............Who gives a damn.......Nobody could guard anybody one on one in the NBA!!!!Thats why you have 4 other guys helping one another...
Props to Bowen he is a top defender they should split the award IMO.
^^^I'd go for that.
Congrats to Ben, I guess.
Just kidding. I don't think he deserved it over Bowen, but I can't exactly be mad at that guy. He's a very hard worker and, by all accounts, a good guy. You can't hate on him just because the voters don't watch Spurs games.
Bowen needs to lead the league or at least be in the top 5 of something before he is considered as the best at something.
He's not the DPOY, I don't think Ben Wallace is either.
Who would you pick if you had a vote?
That's wrong. He pressures the ball in the backcourt, and does that mean Brad Miller is bring the ball up the floor? The Pistons are able to switch on screen-and-rolls because he can stand out of the perimeter and guard swingmen, even if it's only for 5 seconds or so before the team rotates him back into the paint. That five seconds can mean the difference between a great defensive sequence or a poor one. And I have one name for you: Kwame Brown. Watch him switch on a screen-roll with Steve Nash and you'll see a guy who picks up a foul or the team defense breaks down. Where Wallace gets most of his steals is in the high post because he plays the handoff on the pick-and-pop. One of his most infamous plays is stealing the ball as Payton comes around a screen. he precedes to dribble end to end and sky for a throw-down slam.
While it may sound ridiculous, there is a reason why Boston tried to make him a small forward. It's not that he can play the positions (which is why I think a comment like this is unfair). But he has the physical skills to make the team defense better tenfold by doing the little things. He would've been a Hall-of-Fame defensive lineman if he had chosen to pursue football in college.
No use use trying to sway Spur fan. Those who really know basketball appreciate all the little things he does on both ends to help the Pistons win games. Saying all he does is stand in the paint, like Shaq, shows you are guilty of the same thing you lament the voters for: not watching the games. And the talk of Manu being a better "real" defender is laughable(blog)...
Most Spurs fans see nothing wrong with Ben winning it, just the injustice of BB never having won the award...
Eh, I don't have a problem with Bowen not winning. He deserves one before he retires, but Ben Wallace ain't no chump. Wallace is a better defender than those centers who won that could only block shots like Zo, Mutombo, etc.
Bowen and BWallace both had to work their way into the league and they've earned what they have now. Besides, Bowen can take out his anger on the basketball court. If he had won, that'd give more incentive to other players to try to light him up.
Great Post post of the month IMO.
When it will be announced Pop will say his words.
It's an insult to Bowen.
He is working hard and the NBA does not appreciate what he is doing on the floor through all those years. That's just wrong.
last year you could say, ohh okay that's not right but you know it was close.
Now it was not that close and why they didn't gave it to Bruce?
The excact same post you could write a year ago
I hope that Bowen will someday win defensive player of the year award, but he is aging so the possibility is slim.
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