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Freak injuries can happen, but Adebayo profiles as the sort of player that establishes a defensive player of the year dynasty. Gobert won his first trophy in his age season. Dwight Howard was Ben Wallace was 28, but in just his third season as a full-time starter. That's the pattern here. A young player is identified as an excellent defender, and once he starts easing into his prime, he starts racking up awards.
The Heat are never bad on defense. Like, almost literally never. They've been a below-average defense only once in Erik Spoelstra's 14 seasons at the helm. He got them to No. He is a defensive wizard. So why am I avoiding Adebayo? Largely because the Eastern Conference has gotten so deep that I think they're due for some team-wide slippage. Tucker is gone. Jimmy Butler always misses games and he's about to turn Kyle Lowry is no spring chicken either.
Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson never defend. Spoelstra will scotch tape a competent defense together when the dust settles, but I find it far likelier that the Heat are good defensively and in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference playoff bracket than it is that they remain atop the East with a top-five defense. It's hard to imagine Adebayo winning as a No. I believe that if he'd gotten injured in December instead of March, he would be the reigning Defensive Player of the Year. He's Boston's best defender and was the key to the Celtics' defensive turnaround a season ago.
The major schematic shift that turned them into the NBA's best defense came in the middle of the season, when Ime Udoka started putting him on power forwards so he could wreak havoc off of the ball. Even the vaunted Golden State Warriors had no solution for him. Boston held Golden State to Williams is known for his explosive plays, but ironically his block rate hit a career-low 6. That's no surprise.
His greatest weakness defensively was how frequently he was caught out of position. He'd go for a big block and give up a quiet layup in the process. That changed a season ago. The mistakes have largely been erased. He's cut his foul rate nearly in half since he reached the NBA. He's covering as much ground as anyone save perhaps Giannis Antetokounmpo. That allows him to strike the perfect middle ground: visible enough to be noticed without letting his ambition bait him into bad plays.
You're taking an injury risk on Williams. He's missed 41 games over the past two seasons and has played roughly as many regular-season minutes in his career as LeBron James once did in a typical-usage season. There's also a bit of defensive regression coming simply because no team should ever be 3. But Williams is the best player on the best defense. His internal competition has already won and there's no overwhelming external threat facing him.
The value is limited when compared to the risk you're taking, but I'm picking Williams to win the award and will bet on him to win the trophy that should've been his last season. Winning as an older player certainly isn't unheard of. Dikembe Mutombo did it plenty, but we haven't had a winner in his 30's since Kevin Garnett in Green was the runaway winner a season ago until he got hurt. Gary Payton II is gone. Now, Golden State's defense was still very good without Payton.
In Green's minutes without him, the Warriors allowed only That's what you'd expect out of a Defensive Player of the Year. But when they were together? You simply couldn't score on the Warriors. Their He's a heavy loss. The young players are going to get plenty of minutes, and young players tend not to be very good defenders. Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody should grow into strong defenders with time, but they're unlikely to thrive there this season.
Jordan Poole may never be a good defender, and while that's perfectly okay given his offensive contributions, it won't help Green's cause. James Wiseman is particularly concerning. It's not a coincidence that the Warriors were below. Wiseman might be better next season than he was as a rookie, but he was really destructive to Golden State's defense the last time we saw him play.
In general I'd steer clear of the older Warriors when it comes to awards. Green, Stephen Curry , Klay Thompson and Steve Kerr have all been there and done that so many times that they're likely to be more focused on the playoffs anyway. He's just not the best candidate for this award. The Bucks have quietly started to ease into that comfortable space occupied by Golden State and most veteran winners of not especially caring about the regular season.
Mike Budenholzer always limits how many minutes he'll use his best players, and Jrue Holiday , Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez are all in their 30's. Speaking of Lopez, his absence played a meaningful role in Antetokounmpo not seriously competing for this award a season ago. Milwaukee's starters had been one of the league's most reliable defensive units for three years, but without Lopez a season ago, the Bucks slipped all the way to 14th defensively.
Having Lopez for the whole year surely would have helped, but even in the admittedly small sample he played with Antetokounmpo last season, the Bucks allowed a pedestrian An aging Lopez is likely keeping most of his gas in the postseason tank.
The supporting cast, save those top four, is largely bad defensively. Wes Matthews is back, but he's a year-old minimum-salary player. Grayson Allen and Bobby Portis are poor defenders. Joe Ingles is too and he's coming off of a torn ACL. When it counts, the Bucks will be quite good on defense. In January? They're probably not going to give Giannis the support he needs to win this award.
Sidney Moncrief did it in the first two years of the award's existence, when guards were more common recipients. Peak-Kawhi Leonard was so good that opposing teams chose to play 4-on-4 offense over engaging him in their actions. Neither precedent really applies to Smart. He's due for fewer minutes this season with Malcolm Brogdon joining the backcourt and Derrick White onboard for the full season. I've laid out the case for Williams already. Voters will remember Jimmy Butler and Stephen Curry carving the Celtics up in back-to-back playoff rounds and wonder what it says about their perimeter stopper.
It just seems extremely unlikely that all of the stars that aligned for Smart a year ago do so again. Either the Celtics regress defensively and voters look elsewhere, or they're just as good as they were a year ago, which means that Williams likely gave them 65 All-Defense-caliber games. It took Green and Adebayo missing significant time with injuries, Gobert playing on a miserable roster and Antetokounmpo's apathy to get Smart a trophy last year.
I struggle to see all of that happening again. The Suns got torched for almost points per possessions in the playoffs as teams more aggressively exploited Chris Paul's age. DeAndre Ayton didn't want to stay and may not be as enthusiastic about the little things as he was when he was fighting for a contract. Jae Crowder has been in trade rumors all offseason. Virtually all of their reserves are average or worse defensively. Bridges is so good that he can prop up a lesser defense, and Williams does the same as one of the NBA's best night-to-night coaches.
But Bridges isn't a center. Big men have a much easier time transforming regular-season defenses than wings do because they have an easier time impacting the entire floor. I'm not opposed to betting wings. I just wouldn't do it at to-1 with this roster around him. So many things need to happen for Davis to be a viable candidate for this award. He needs to stay healthy. He's played just 76 times in the past two years.
He's coming from a great defensive organization in Milwaukee, but he's a first-time head coach. We know very little about him. The undersized Detroit Pistons center received out of a total votes for the award. In his award-winning season, Wallace averaged 7. It was just one of his four Defensive Player of the Year worthy years.
The team of the winning player tends to reveal the news publicly during the NBA Playoffs. Prior to its cancellation, the prize would have been announced at the NBA Awards ceremony. Last year, the award news was also announced on a broadcast of Inside the NBA. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member was equally a force on the offensive and defensive end of the court.
In his Defensive Player of the Year winning season, which also happened to be his second All-Star season, Moncrief averaged Impressively, his first award-winning season was just a precursor to the fact that he would be the first to ever win Defensive Player of the Year in consecutive seasons.
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