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00:00and nobody had a clear cut,
00:02like nobody was competing with Wembin Yama either.
00:04It was like, oh, if it's not Wembin, it's this guy.
00:06It was Wembin.
00:07The award was done.
00:08So like, all right, I guess Jaron Jackson Jr. and Evan Mobley.
00:11And then that was a little bit of a thing.
00:13And then Draymond's like, I'm DPOI.
00:15And then I guess people were like, he said he's DPOI.
00:17We'll click.
00:18And the Bucs were like, I think he's DPOI.
00:19And then all of a sudden, Mobley got back in the race.
00:23The Defensive Player of the Year award is very, very tricky right now.
00:28So I, my biggest take on the award is I wish that there wasn't a games requirement
00:36so I could just give it a Chad Holmgren, but that's preposterous, I know.
00:41I don't know if Mobley's case is great.
00:43I don't think Draymond's is good enough.
00:46Dyson Daniels has been great on Atlanta, but the defense is still not,
00:49the defense is not that great.
00:53Like, it's a tough situation he's in playing next to Trey.
00:55Dyson Daniels, you like Dyson Daniels if you had the vote?
00:59Yeah, I like Dyson Daniels pretty much for the better part of the last two months.
01:02His ability to steal the ball and guard the ball.
01:04And I think, I think he should, I know this sounds wild, but say,
01:07I think you should get credit for playing next to Trey.
01:10I think that.
01:11I think that's fair.
01:12I think it holds weight on the fact that he's playing against a guy that has,
01:16I mean, you want to talk about Luka not wanting to play defense?
01:19I mean, I think Luka tries, he just misses assignments.
01:23I don't think Trey even tries to play defense.
01:25Yeah.
01:26So, to me, a team that's poor defensively, that ended up, you know,
01:31losing Jalen Johnson, a pretty good defender to injury,
01:35trading DeAndre Hunter, one of the better 3D guys in the league,
01:39and this guy's defense, to me, I think, elevating, playing next to Trey Young,
01:43it's a wild thing because no one ran away from it.
01:46You can say, Evan Mobley, man, people like Jaron Jackson Jr.,
01:50I don't like, because I just don't think he rebounds the ball enough.
01:54You know, to me, for what he does, stopping guards,
01:57and guards dominate the league, I think it's Dyson Daniels, in my opinion.
02:01It really comes down to what you value, right?
02:03Like, is it because, and frankly, as we've talked about,
02:06Trey Young's a liability on defense.
02:08So, like, Daniels is elevating part of the defense by himself.
02:13And doing it shorthanded and not fully healthy.
02:15Do you value what Evan Mobley does?
02:18Do you value what Draymond does?
02:19That's why I think the award is,
02:21it's actually one of the more difficult awards to break down,
02:24because it can't just be on stats.
02:25Then we're looking at the advanced stats, the underlying metrics,
02:27the on-off stuff.
02:28But what's so bizarre, like, again, like for Atlanta,
02:31they're under .500.
02:32That's tough.
02:33That's tough.
02:33It's not, it wouldn't go for me, it wouldn't go to Daniel.
02:35Evan, Cleveland is not one of the top five defenses in basketball.
02:41I don't, like, there's a misconception, I think, that they are.
02:44Neither are the Golden State Warriors.
02:46I wouldn't hate if Jalen Williams won it for Oklahoma City,
02:49but he doesn't, again, seem to be in the race.
02:50It seems to be Lou Dort.