Wayne Wu wrote:Lalouie wrote:this thread looks strangely familiar
am i having a deja vu moment
defense is a team thing. dpoy is an unnecessary award. it needs to be something else. i don't know what, but something
Honest question.
So for you,is MVP an unnecessary award as well? If defense is a team thing, then offence is also a team thing.
The whole basketball is a team thing. The All-NBA selection might be unnecessary as well.
the mvp is an egalitarian award and should be, and thus voted upon (as it should be) for
excellence.
and excellence being a subjective opinion that in SPORTS(in this case) has a varied circumstantial meaning.
yet people treat this award as if it should have a hard line be-all-end-all meaning and so there's just too much to-do over this award
dpoy is just too damn hard to determine as it IS a team thing (note: jj and kd on jj's podcast -"jrue would be the best defensive guard in the nba but playing on bad teams hurt him"), with even lesser impact in this era of the 3.
the mvp also is almost always based on offense, and it is as plain as the nose on your face that a single player can carry a team on offense but not on D(except russell IN THE 60'S). offense and defense are NOT the same and don't bear equal weight.
dpoy almost by definition is a CENTER'S award. centers dominate the dpoy and okay maybe that is just, since the game is moving away from centers.
so if I were to rationalize a vote for the worth of dpoy, i would say it is
that,,,,since i do not like the 3shot in basketball.