Myth wrote:So are we ready to talk about him as a DPOY candidate yet, or are the advanced metric folks still against it?
What does it mean? If there's a group of people that would argue about a player from 11-46 team being in the convo for these big awards are advanced metric folks.
+6.8 D net (-0.3 rDRTG on, +6.5 rDRTG off)
2.5 DBPM (7th in the league)
3.2 DEPM (7th in the league)
9.7 BLK% (2nd in the league, 1st in raw block numbers)
2.1 STL% (2nd among big men)
54.3 DFG% at rim for >5 attempts (7th in the league)
-4.5 DFG% differential vs expected (16th in the league)
3.0 deflections (8th ex aequo, 1st among big men)
30.6 DRB% (3rd in the league)
Yeah, Wembanyama is already All-NBA D Team calibre of a defender and I guess (almost) all the metrics support such claim. Is he a DPOTY? Hard to tell, Spurs are atrocious as a team, that's by far the weakest team on positions 2- in the whole league (they're 11-46 with all-star level player, lol), so it's impossible to compare his impact to Gobert's, for example.