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Who will win Defensive Player of the Year?
Since the start of last season, no player has logged more career games (71) with multiple blocks than Victor Wembanyama, who has swatted at least three shots in 11 of 14 appearances this season for a young Spurs team that is learning how to outlast opponents in close games. Wembanyama has posted more blocks (51) than Anthony Davis and Draymond Green combined (46) to go with 18 steals, despite sitting out three games due to injury. -- Michael Wright

1. Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs: 43 points (67% of first-place votes)

T2. Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers: 16 points (8% of first-place votes)

T2. Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors: 16 points

4. Dyson Daniels, Atlanta Hawks: 12 points (8% of first-place votes)

T5. OG Anunoby, New York Knicks: 5 points (8% of first-place votes)

T5. Franz Wagner, Orlando Magic: 5 points (8% of first-place votes)

T7. Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers: 3 points

T7. Jalen Suggs, Orlando Magic: 3 points

T9. Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies: 2 points

T9. Lu Dort, Oklahoma City Thunder: 2 points

11. Chet Holmgren, Oklahoma City Thunder: 1 point
So now only blocks considered as defense, Okay

 

AD won't get the award when we're #26 in defense, right or wrong.

who's who of the league's worst teams...and us.



we're 4th in offense, though, so...yay?

we finished last year 15th in offense, 17th in defense, for reference.

so again, as it pertains to this thread, i'd like to look for defensive players on the trade market.

hell, dennis smith jr. is sitting at home right now and was a good pg defender last year.

 

San Antonio is 10 at Western standing and will be tanking.So Wembanyama isn't DPOY also.
This is funny

 

LOL .... watch out for his left hand/fist, Wemby.

 

Man, the hangover effect of us just giving up against Denver has really stayed with me. The disgust, I mean.

It reminded me of a game we played last year, and I wasn't sure which one so I had to look it up: It was against Brooklyn, in LA, last Jan 19. We led 68-62 at half, then they outscored us 38-22 in the 3rd and by 8 in the 4th. It looked like they gave up...for some reason.

I still feel baffled by the Lakers allowing Nugs a 50-17 run after we had a lead. It's too easy to speculate what might have happened internally. I just don't know, but it's been a major downer and confirmed to me: despite winning 6 straight, and BTB games on the road, we're really not that good, and I've reverted to my basic stance about any Laker team: gimme a Top 5 Defensive team, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary to me. And we really do SUCK on defense this year, so I'm readjusting my expectations.

Also: AD bricking those FTs against ORL and playing timidly - even scared - against DEN and Jokic? sobering AF to me.

 

Wow .
C Bags destroyed Clippers
They scored 51 points in 3 quarter and made 12 3 point shots

 

Well …. the upside of all this coming back to earth before re-enforcements if they’re coming even …. get here, is did anyone really seriously want to see our brother in Laker arms OX actually puke on the internet with the black olives and half can of juice?

 

Unfortunately we’ve seen teams take lesser offers to spite us in the past.

 

Remember when we argued for Conley? Good times. Lol

 

I think Dennis is looked at fondly now just because he actually played most of the games and generally gave us some kind of contribution most nights on the floor even if it was small. Back to back duds with former Heat guys have guys just wanting someone who at least won’t completely disappear out there every single night.

 

Knicks spanking Nuggets at home. Anunoby killing them.

 

LMAO
https://www.tmz.com/2024/11/25/sixers-font-graphic/

 

damn. haven't heard that name for a while now

 

I will never forgive @LTLakerFan for arguing that the DS replacement will be better

 

It takes Gabe years to achieve such stats

 

I like Dennis, he's scrappy, probably a bit overconfident in himself, but that's not exactly a terrible thing.

 

he doesn't have the disadvantage of being a laker, having demanded a trade to be a laker, or having beaten the bloggers' favorite teams in the playoffs.

yeah, people got big mad at us for it. i also sometimes wonder what would have happened had we moved THT for lowry when the opportunity was there. i wasn't on board at the time, and that was dumb in retrospect. never guessed lowry would still be a starting caliber player years later, lol.

i hate to have to keep repeating it, but it wasn't a choice between gabe and dennis. dennis wanted to start, and if he starts, you're not a good team. note that the team that signed him to the deal immediately turned around and moved him, like pretty much everyone does. he looks great individually when he gets to be the main guy, but his teams don't. i wanted to keep him, but he didn't want to stay here unless we were going to be the nets.

now being mad about gabe sucking is a separate issue. he does suck, and we apparently wasted that mle. but keeping schroder wasn't really an option unless we were also planning to attach assets to move dlo for a downgrade at the same time, which would have been stupid.

when the nuggets play other teams, they look very mortal.

 

Oh yeah. To be clear, I do get this.