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Rudy 5th in DPOY award voting.

mellow said:
Aren't both Draymond and Kawai RFAs this summer?

Do the jazz go crazy all in on the defense and try to steal away one of those two? Think of the defense of Gobert, favors, Kawai, Hayward and Exum.

And add Dwight howard to the crying list. He is unstable, insecure, thinks he is king and beat his child.
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You add Leonard (Finals MVP, DPOY, career stats 16.5 ppg, 37% 3s, 49.6 FG%, 6 rpg, 1.8 apg) to this team and trott out a starting line up of Gobert, Favors, Leonard, Hayward and Exum with Booker, Hood, Burks and Burke on the bench and that is the best defensive team in the NBA and a top 4 seed in the west imo.

Plus he is only 23 and fits PERFECTLY into this teams mold and age set for the next decade.

Spurs will never let that happen but I'd be on cloud 9.
 
Jordan is horribly overrated defender. Haberstroh had a great piece about it...
 
Green got hosed. Also, I get that Anthony Davis gets stats but that defense is not good and he has Omer Asik next to him.

Kwahi is probably the best defender, but missed too many games.
 
Kind of saw it as a tossup between Green/Leonard with Jordan and Davis both being a bit over-rated. As always some bad votes at the bottom... Lebron/Butler and the like. Thought Ibaka should have got some and I had Gobert at #3 myself.
 
What nonsense. I understand Gobert not winning it. He was a complete unknown until half way through the season, and he ended averaging only 26 mpg. While Leonard is a great defender, he missed too many games, and haven't done anything special on the defensive end this season. Green on the other hand is the main reason why GS could switch on everything, as he can guard every position on the floor. He is the pivot around which their league-leading defense revolves. He should have won.
 
I think Rudy is the best defensive player in the league by a mile...but I'm really happy that he got screwed on this award. Rudy has a huge chip on his shoulder and this is only going to add to it. He is probably going to have that tweet on a poster or something. I predict him coming out next season with a venagance to win both DPOY and MIP
 
Crawlnstall said:
I think Rudy is the best defensive player in the league by a mile...but I'm really happy that he got screwed on this award. Rudy has a huge chip on his shoulder and this is only going to add to it. He is probably going to have that tweet on a poster or something. I predict him coming out next season with a venagance to win both DPOY and MIP
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He might win MIP this year. But for him to win it next year, he would pretty much have to instantly jump to Olajuwon's level of performance.
 
stitches said:
Jordan is horribly overrated defender. Haberstroh had a great piece about it...
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DeAndre does not have half the defensive brains Rudy has. Rudy said the Jazz are a playoff team after the Allstar break and he said that he deserves Most Improved Player award. Not putting his name and his team's name up on board because of the late push will most probably boost his hustle level up next season.

The best part for me was that he told the exact needs for his game to develop to next year that he will work on this summer. He is 100% aware what he needs to do.

He also said that he will play NT in Eurobasket. It starts at the end of August.
 
Siro said:
He might win MIP this year. But for him to win it next year, he would pretty much have to instantly jump to Olajuwon's level of performance.
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I hope he gets blanked and finished low in point total like he did in DPOY. Feed that fire.
 
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