The NBA is the world's basketball sports event, and the NBA League will select outstanding players or team awards every year to praise their individual excellence or bring positive changes to the team, such as the Most Valuable Player MVP, the Most Improved MiP Award, and the Best Defensive Player DPOY. In the case of MVP, only players who have performed well in the season and led the team to outstanding records will be selected as MVP, and since MVP is the best performer, of course, he will be selected for the best team, and all the regular season MVPs will be selected for the best team of the season. But what we're going to talk about today is a rather bizarre award, DPOY.
The full name of the DPOY Awards is Defensive Player Of the Year, short for Defensive Player of the Year, and is an award given to a player who excels defensively, originally established in the 1982–83 season.
The first player to win the award was sydney Moncliffe of the Bucks, who may not be familiar with this benevolent brother, who has been selected as an All-Star five times in his career, and has been selected to the Best Team five times, and has been named Best Defensive Player twice. Honors now seem mediocre, but the god of basketball once said of Moncliffe: "When you face Moncliffe, you have to realize that you will be exhausted all night." Wherever you go, he will follow you to death, even at the two ends of the pitch. You can imagine it. This may indicate the threat of this person on the defensive end.
In the long time that followed, the NBA produced many very good defensive players, some offensive and defensive, like Jordan, Payton, David Robinson, Olajuwon, or the Wizards who focused on defense, like Ben Wallace, Howard has also won the Best Defensive Player Award many times, but there have also been many embarrassing situations in which the best defensive player has not been selected for the best defensive team. Uncle Mu and Tyson Chandler and Gasol Jr. were embarrassed to be on the list.
Let's first look at the rules for the NBA's best defensive team:
The NBA Defensive Team is the best lineup the NBA League has selected for the best defensive players in the NBA regular season every year since the 1968-1969 season. Before 2014, it was voted by the head coaches of 30 NBA teams, but the head coaches were not allowed to vote for their own disciples, and after 2014, the lineup was voted by sports journalists and television commentators in the United States and Canada.
Each head coach selects 5 players from the first and second teams according to the position of center, forward and defender. Players get 2 points for the votes in the first lineup, 1 point for the votes for the second team, and finally two sets of lineups are determined by the number of points: the 5 players with the highest scores form the first team, and the 5 players ranked 6-10 make up the second team. When a tie in points occurs, the number of places in the best defensive team will be increased.
The NBA's Best Defensive Player is an individual award that the league has been judging since 1983, and the Best Defensive Player of the Year was selected by the Canadian Sports News reporters in the United States. Each person can cast three ballots for one to three people. The ballot vote for the first place is equivalent to 5 points, the second place vote is equivalent to 3 points, and the third place ballot is equivalent to 1 point. The player with the highest overall score (as opposed to the first place with the most votes) was elected the best defensive player of the year.
To sum up, the best defensive players are selected by media reporters, and there will be differences due to different professional levels. But the best team selection is an expert-level team coach selection, more authoritative, more convincing.
Defensive Player of the Season in 1995 Mutombo
The best defensive lineups of the year were; Scotty Pippen, Dennis Rodman, David Robinson, Gary Payton, Mutch Brelock. (Why isn't Joe's helper?) Because Joe helped the Lord to play baseball), it can be seen that Uncle Mu is replaced by David Robinson.
Robinson averaged 27.6 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.2 blocks and 1.7 steals per game, leading the team to a record of 54 wins and 26 losses.
Uncle Mu averaged 11.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, 3.9 blocks and 0.5 steals per game.
Although Uncle Mu's defensive data is more beautiful, the coaches believe that Robinson led the team to play a better record and deserves to be awarded. After this experience, Uncle Mu became more involved in the defensive end, winning the Best Defensive Player 3 times with the Hawks and the 76ers, and becoming a DPOY player in his career with Ben Wallace.
Defensive Player of the Season 2011 Tyson Chandler
He brought iron-blooded defense to New York, one man who changed the team's defensive culture, but the best defensive team of the season was; Paul, Allen, James, Ibaka and Howard, replacing Howard in the center position.
Howard averaged 20.6 points, 14.5 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and 1.5 steals per game that year.
Chandler had only 11.3 points, 9.9 rebounds, 1.4 blocks and 0.9 steals, a statistical loss to Howard across the board.
As for why he was elected to DPOY, it may just be that Howard has been the best defensive player for the previous three seasons, and the commentators are aesthetically tired.
2012 Defensive Player of the Season Marc Gasol
Gasol led the Grizzlies to a 14-1 record around Christmas, during which time they scored fewer than 100 points in 12 consecutive games. But the best defensive teams of the season were; Paul, Allen, James, Ibaka, Chandler and Noah. You read that the center position is Chandler and Noah (both have the same rating), which means that there are two players in the center position who are stronger than Xiao Jia on the defensive end.
Noah averaged 11.9 points, 11.1 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and 1.2 steals per game.
Chandler averaged 10.4 points, 10.7 rebounds, 1.1 blocks and 0.6 steals per game.
He averaged 14.1 points, 7.8 rebounds, 1.7 blocks and 1 steal per game.
The reason why Xiao Jia finally won the award was because of a group of strong teammates, Tony Allen, who was the best defensive team, and Mike Conley, who was also the second team with Gasol, were all important contributors to the Grizzlies' defensive first place that season, and Xiao Jia only appeared at the right time.