NBA Defensive Player of the Year

And this super chat from Sanj kind of sums it up a little bit too, because with the boner conversation that people were having.

Plus side of Bona being terrible is that it's going to make the on-off nerds be forced to put Embiid into DPOY and MVP conversations at the end of the year.

So there's that.

Yeah.

Look, I would prefer a competent backup that I trusted.

They'll get that later.

But you want to talk about the DPOY nerds.

So first of all, I'm bringing up the field goal percentage at the rim with Embiid in the vicinity.

San Antonio Spurs star center Victor Wembanyama is known as the alien, a nod to his supernatural size and supernatural basketball skills.

At 7'4", Wembynjama can dunk without jumping, yet he also can freeze defenders with his ball handling, drain three-pointers, and he is the NBA's reigning defensive player of the year.

But as nicknames go, the alien misses the mark like a clunky jump shot, in that Wemby, there's your nickname, is a man making the most of his earthly minutes.

He comes from France, plays pick-up chess in Manhattan parks, and trains at Chinese monasteries.

Three blocks as well.

DPOY level performance.

from Evan Mobley and Jared Ong chipped in with 21 and eight.

So it was a well-rounded effort from the bigs last night.

And he is averaging three and a half steals so far.

So I'm not too sure if 3.67 is realistic because it felt like he was just miles above everybody two years ago when he finished runner-up and defensive player of the year voting to Evan Mobley.

And he led the NBA with three steals.

I would be very shocked if he was over... 3.2 steals this year just because I don't know if that's sustainable throughout the regular season I do think he can get some DPOY votes if Wemby plays 65 games and is not unanimous once again but I think Dyson can maybe reclaim the status as the best perimeter defender in the NBA because right now I think it's a Sar Thompson last year it may have been Alex Caruso we'll see if it can become Daniels this year because hey he's been on an all defensive team the last two years and I would be not shocked at all if he ended up on it three years in a row but I do think this is an overreaction I don't think he's getting over 3.67 steals a night that just feels crazy Hayden Season mentions here that Miami Heat are basically a copy and paste of last year's Bucs.