Absolutely disgraceful. Awards voting is so bad.
Gobert Gets 3rd in DPOY Voting
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Eh...I actually don't mind voter fatigue. Awards can/will get boring when everything is purely objective. The Celtics had an amazing defense and I don't mind them being rewarded for it...but the best defender on that team is clearly Robert Williams....and this is coming from a guy who has been pushing Smart this whole year.
Weird year. Draymond should have/would have won but got injured. Gobert has voter fatigue and probably wasn't his peak defensively, but he was still the deserving DPOY. Robert Williams was probably the second best, but his teammate won instead haha.
Weird year. Draymond should have/would have won but got injured. Gobert has voter fatigue and probably wasn't his peak defensively, but he was still the deserving DPOY. Robert Williams was probably the second best, but his teammate won instead haha.
If there wasn't voting fatigue, how many MVPs would Lebron and MJ have won?
You vote for the best defensive player. It's Defensive Player of the Year, not best defensive player on the best defensive team of the year award.
Bawse Dawg
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At least twister is laughing about it. The narrative is definitely shifting on Gobert. Hopefully he dominates tonight.
MVP is a weird aware because most valuable is a more subjective thing.
If the award was called Best Player of the Year, then MJ/Lebron would be raking in a lot more.
I think the ATL-Gobert trade has a good probability of happening. Then we will see what happens. We'll essentially switch places with them. The Hawks will be at the top of the conference after Rudy instantly makes them a top 5 defense. The Jazz will struggle to make the playoffs and fall down to ~25th in defense. The good thing for Rudy is that Trae will pass him the ball on offense, and even after a trade with UTA the Hawks will have more versatile wings/size on the perimeter to defend.
8-10 of them each? Idk....I get why people are upset at narrative driven awards. But I think it's more interesting than having the same guy win it every year.
Robert Williams was probably the second best defender in the league anyways if we're not counting Draymond.
Yeah, nothing has changed since last year. He's still by far the best defensive player in the league. The false narratives about him after the Clippers series played in to this. It was obvious from the start of the season it didn't matter what he did, he wasn't getting it again.
Seems like this has been the old school approach that hasn't really gone away since before advanced statistics. At least we've progressed from the person with the most blocks or steals was automatically winner without any context to their numbers.
Similar thoughts here. This year was just such a weird year. Gobert was ruled out from the start if we're being perfectly honest. Draymond was terrific before he got injured and would have/should have won it. Rob Williams and Bam were probably behind those two in another tier but they only played 61 and 56 games respectively. If there was ever a year for an oddball winner, it was this year. I don't think anyone, even those who voted for Smart, thinks he was the best defender this year and probably not even top 3. He had the narrative for sure.
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Gobert is so obviously farther ahead of everyone else defensively that this just shows no one cares about the actual defense. They care about the narrative. His advanced stats are crazy far ahead of everyone else, to the point of being ridiculous. So there is no way they can objectively justify the vote. They just have to all admit to voter fatigue or whatever ******** they want to call it. Really they need to admit they just didn't want to give it to Gobert yet again. This is the 2nd time he's been blatantly robbed of DPOY. With how unpopular Gobert is I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't win another regardless of how he performs. Just another thing that makes the NBA a joke.
Right, if anybody should be mad at themselves and feel the need to work extra hard tonight it should be his teammates.
Voter fatigue as expected. At least I don't have to change my avatar for a 4th year in a row.
