Doc Rivers BS campaigning again - Ben Simmons is a lock to win DPOY

[LogGrad98]

But Philadelphia is only a couple games behind us. If they finish first in the standings it changes the calculus.

As is phoenix. And the Lakers are not an insurmountable distance behind. And the nets are right there as well, in fact I believe they are now 2nd in the league standings. It's going to be a 5 horse race for 1st. Could end up adding to the growing swell that James should win it.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

As long as the Jazz keep winning it should be a lock. Jazz schedule only gets easier and easier as time goes.

It would be nice if Rudy shut down Jokic or something during a nationally televised game. I agree it should be Rudy if we keep winning. BS isn’t even the best defensive player on his team... that team has other great defenders too and I believe they are still below us on defensive rating.

 

[Beer]

I mean its not crazy, Simmons has had really good success against the elite wings this year, and can guard 1 - 4 but he also has Embiid backing him up which obviously helps a ton. Rudy does way way more for this team defensively. Voters might look at Jokic and Embiid dropping 40 on him as a big knock though.

 

[Jazzinho]

Tbh I was expecting that with Embid out, Philly would start losing a lot of games or at least having the opponents to score much more points with Tony Bradley starting, but that didn't happen so far. They held NYK to 96 and SAS to 99.
That doesn't make Simmons more impactfull or a better defensive player than Gobert by no means, but the impact that Embid has on his performance might not be as big.

 

[gomretat]

Doc is doing what good coaches do for their players. I really hope BS doesn't win it and I dont think he deserves it in any way but I seriously doubt that Rudy will, regardless of what the numbers say.

 

[porfavors]

Doc Rivers BS campaigning again - Ben Simmons is a lock to win ROY​

Title is corrected

 

[framer]

Tbh I was expecting that with Embid out, Philly would start losing a lot of games or at least having the opponents to score much more points with Tony Bradley starting, but that didn't happen so far. They held NYK to 96 and SAS to 99.
That doesn't make Simmons more impactfull or a better defensive player than Gobert by no means, but the impact that Embid has on his performance might not be as big.

I think they have 8 out of 10 coming up on the road, with a lot of good western conference teams mixed in there. We'll see how that holds up for them.