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This is weird because apparently Ben Wallace was already told that he wasn't getting it.
If they give this award to Marcus Camby, what a frickin' joke.
Buck Harvey: Missed chance: No award for Bowen, just usual impact
Web Posted: 04/30/2005 12:00 AM CDT
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...22854434c.html
San Antonio Express-News
DENVER — Bruce Bowen won't be the defensive player of the year, and there's reason to believe he never will be.
If he couldn't win the award this season — with Ron Artest out and so many of Bowen's victims out of their minds — what's the chance he will after age 33?
It's a shame. Voters missed a chance to recognize a rare defender, someone who applies more than shotblocking instincts to the defensive end, and they missed a chance to do this at precisely the right time.
Bowen is changing this series as much as a perimeter defender can.
Bowen will be disappointed when the award is announced next week and someone else wins. He's been listed as a favorite in some newspapers, and Bowen has said he thinks he deserves the trophy.
There's no clear winner, and that's true of most postseason awards. Ben Wallace and Marcus Camby, among others, also impact games on the defensive end, and Bowen gets help from the Spurs' defensive system.
Carmelo Anthony talked about that this week. He semi-praised Bowen, calling him "a fly" who annoys. "He's an agitator," Anthony said then, "and he's not going to let you get on a roll."
But then Anthony added something else. "I wouldn't say it so much is just him. I see him, I see Tim Duncan, I see Nazr Mohammed, I see all of those guys."
It's not inaccurate. The Spurs' system is based on a basic philosophy, and it fits against Anthony better than most. For example, the Spurs would rather Anthony shoot 20-footers than drive. When Anthony does penetrate, he often goes baseline, which is precisely where the Spurs want Bowen to force him anyway.
There Anthony sees Duncan, Mohammed and all those guys.
But that account isn't fair to Bowen, nor does it explain other defenders around the league. If it were this easy, wouldn't there be 50 players like Bowen?
Vince Carter knows the answer. Bowen did more than funnel Carter inside this season; he funneled Carter off the court with an ejection.
Then there's Ray Allen. Last season Allen announced Bowen played "sissy basketball," and this year Allen said Bowen didn't do even that.
"He doesn't play basketball," Allen said. "I don't know what he does. They put him out there to throw punches and throw elbows."
Forget what sportswriters do with their defensive-player-of-the-year ballots. Carter and Allen, with their frustration, have in effect already named Bowen as the winner.
Bowen doesn't throw punches, nor is he known for elbows. He simply pays attention and understands the angles and watches film. He has a book on each scorer, and Bowen also isn't without physical gifts.
Ask any scout. Bowen moves his feet as few defenders do.
He's struggled to move them as well on the other end of the floor, which never made sense. The same man who could move with Kobe Bryant couldn't begin to move like him.
Was there a worse finisher on the Spurs? A worse pull-up jump shooter?
What followed this season, then, is worth another award. Bowen kept dribbling through drills until he no longer was a liability on offense, and a sequence in January showed that. Then Bowen outscored Bryant one week and Anthony the next.
But it's as a defender where he changes the Spurs, and Duncan knows that. Duncan calls him "Elmer Bowen," as in Elmer's Glue, as in the glue of the defense.
Elmer sure sticks to Anthony now. Anthony had a key putback late in Game 1, and Anthony has kept his composure. But those are his high points, and the lows are more numerous. Anthony followed a 6-of-14, three-turnover opener with a nearly identical 5-of-14, three-turnover sequel.
"Carmelo hasn't been himself in this series," Camby said.
But it isn't just this series. Anthony is shooting 31 of 94 in six games against the Spurs this season.
The Nuggets will want more tonight, and for good reason. If they can't score in transition and they can't get much from Anthony, then where will they get points?
Bowen will react as he always has. He will move his feet, bother his opponent and change the game.
As if he were the defensive player of the year.
This is weird because apparently Ben Wallace was already told that he wasn't getting it.
If they give this award to Marcus Camby, what a frickin' joke.
You gotta be kiddin me..........
Damn, Bruce is gonna come out smokin tommarow..........
DPotY is stats-based, right? If so, I'm not surprised why Bowen gets snubbed every year.
No. None of the awards are stat-based, it's just opinion-based votes.DPotY is stats-based, right?
Yeah and most of the one's who have an opinion that Bowen is just a dirty player that doesn't play D at all. I believe he deserves it for the simple fact that supposed superstars complain about him so much.
Bowen isn't going to win DPOY
What the is up with this new thing of saying Bruce is only a good defender because of the Spurs system?
I am surprised to hear Bruce won't be getting it, I don't think this was his best season...but I do think he was the best defensive player in the NBA this season because of all the suspensions...and because no one really had a phenomenal statistical season on D this year. But it's no gurantee because it's voted on by the media...
Buck undermines his own cause of defending the criticisms of Bruce only being good because of Duncan and the Spurs scheme, by not mentioning that Bruce made the All NBA Defensive Team before he was ever a member of the Spurs. Bruce was a hated pest in the East before he was even on the radar to be a member of the Spurs. Maybe Buck doesn't know it.
I remember Jeff Van Gundy saying that he opened a bottle of champagne when he found out Bruce was leaving the Eastern Conference to go play for the Spurs.
I gaurantee Bowen knows this.
Carmello may be lucky to get 8 points tommarow night.
heh-heh....
schemen....
But seriously, 15 of 20 DPoYs have been big men and 13 of those had gaudy block numbers.
This is no surprise.
Id love to know who has won it.
Its not Ben Wallace, its not Bruce Bowen.
WHO the F else???
Shaq?? Tim Duncan??
Of course if it was Duncan Harvey would have admitted it here.
The compe ion is dry this season for DPotY, so if Bowen gets slighted again in favor of someone like Hughes... I don't know, maybe I'll just stomp my foot on the ground repeatedly?
Typo smack? That's a new low even for you...What's so funny?
didn't think of Larry Hughes.
Damn this is really interesting.
Marcus Camby? Larry Hughes? Tim Duncan????
Camby fits the profile.
Relax, spanky. I had to think for a second if that was actually a word. It's funny in a Beavis and Butt-Head way. You have to admit that.Typo smack? That's a new low even for you...What's so funny?
hopefully by the time they announce this award.
The Spurs will have eliminated the Nuggets.
Im praying Kori's prediction is right....
who votes for DPOY?
If it's the opposing coaches or players, why would they want to give Bowen any credit? Don't they hate his style of play?
The media votes for DPOY.who votes for DPOY?
If it's the opposing coaches or players, why would they want to give Bowen any credit? Don't they hate his style of play?
did y'all see scottie pippen's article on nba.com? he practically bashes bruce bowen for being considered a defense player of the year candidate...
apparently busting your ass out there defending the best player on ever team every single night is not considered?...what the is scottie pippen looking at? he's such a dumbass...get this he picked allen iverson, lol...
you know how pop culture is...what's funny to me is that ppl, or pop cultuer ppl consider the offense the player plays as well as the defense they play, e.g. kobe bryant...it is fuucking stupid to say allen iverson is the defensive player of the year, seriously who does he threaten? all he does is whine to the refs and take 40 to 50 shots a game...this dude don't play defense, or at least better defense than bowen...i see bowen hustle back everytime to get on defense...i see bowen harrass every guy he's guarding night in and night out...apparenly ppl forgot what defense is or looks like...oh btw, scottie has mvp as shaq...STEVE NASH is mvp without a doubt imo...
You telling me that Bowen is not a DPOY?
Than I don't know what basketball is. What defense is.
Nobody deserves more than him thos year nobody. Night after night he was just harassing the other teams (G) stars.
Halfway through the season I thought that Tim was a lock for DPOY, but then the injuries hit, so that went out the window.
If Bruce does not get it this year not only will he have been robbed of the award by media voters who ride Ben Wallace's nuts, but he probably will never win it at all.
Bump for human injustice.
TD needs to hang 40 on Camby for his buddy Bruce.
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