Mobley went on to state his case for the first time
“The biggest thing is a guy my size, my wingspan, my agility, you don’t really see that in the contenders. There’s nobody even close to that. And also the stats as well speak for itself. The blocks, the fouls, I mean, I don’t foul. Steals, deflections. Also, people don’t even go up against me in the paint. So that’s not even a stat.”
Mobley is averaging 18.6-9.4-3.2 for the 63-16 Cavs, adding 1.6 blocks and 0.9 steals in just 30 minutes per game. He is also only averaging 2 fouls. The Cavs clinched the one seed in the East over the Celtics on Tuesday night
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Here’s the full video of the exchange from Tuesday night https://streamable.com/9etvoc
Team success has always been a major factor for DPOY, not sure why it should be any different this year just because the loudest guy in the room thinks he should be DPOY.
I think Draymond is a legit choice for DPOY, but it’s annoying that the thing that seemingly swung him into the lead for it is the fact that he has a podcast and the Warriors are a big market team with a lot of national exposure.
Get em DG
Call me Homer idc, Mobleys been that dude all year and nothing changed for him to drop to Draymond. This always happens with awards where the first half of the season becomes irrelevant compared to the last two months.
The warriors are one spot ahead of the Cavs in defensive rating and their defense got significantly better when they added butler. Mobleys also got better counting stats. I know that doesn’t always quantify Draymonds impact but the same could be said for Mobley. So much of what he does doesn’t show up on the sheet. The reason our two small guards work is because of Evans ability to switch on to smaller guards AND be an elite rim protector.
Draymond is an amazing defender but his case is not that dramatically better than Mobleys to where he shot up the way that he did.
Draymond Green was no where near the conversation for DPOY until he cranked his own hog on his own hog cranking podcast. Evan Mobleys stats speak for themselves. Guards 1-5, on the perimeter, in the post, gets steals, blocks all over the place AND DOESN’T FOUL.
If Green wins the DPOY it will just further prove the point that people who vote on these awards have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
Someone said they would vote for Draymond because he can hear him on the court lmao nba media is trash.
It’s Dyson or Mobley. I genuinely can’t even fathom why Draymond should even be in the discussion. Great defender sure, but if he wasn’t tooting his own horn and wasn’t playing for the warriors he wouldn’t get a single vote.
I don’t watch nearly enough ball to have an opinion on DPOY. But i believe Wolves only played Mobley 1X and his D in that game was eye opening.
Draymond winning it this year for a team that didn’t hit its stride defensively until they traded for one of the best two way wings in the league would be blasphemous. Fuckin egregiously bad DPOY choice when Dort, Mobley AND Dyson Daniels have been far more impressive.
If Draymond wins it’s literally just a popularity contest
The only thing NBA reddit agrees on is that you shouldn’t be able to get loud when your team starts winning and get awards.
Mobley has been special all year. He doesn’t get special treatment because the refs are scared of him. He didn’t just start playing defense after the trade deadline.
I’ll be honest that I haven’t watched a ton of hawks games but when I have seen them, Daniels looks like he has a strong case too.
Not gonna lie, I’d honestly prefer Draymond wins. Dray is probably the most well rounded defender of this generation. People love to discredit his skill and impact because they don’t like him personally, but he’s seriously one of the smartest and most capable defenders ever, and has absolutely shouldered the defense of one of the best cores in NBA history.
Thats my pg. 😤😤😤
What kind of bitch goes on their own podcast and lobbies for themselves to win an award during the fucking season anyway?
I tend to think that most of you wouldn’t even bother discussing the award if Draymond wasn’t in the running. The internet created a culture of haters and Draymond gives people that dopamine rush of hate
There’s so many different aspects of defense that it’s hard to decide what matters the most. For me, it’s the fact that Draymond can guard positions 1-5, and when his player passes the ball to someone else under the basket, he can rotate and defend that guy too. Basically guarding a 2 on 1. Who else does that? Most great defenders defend their guy. Ignoring that Draymond can blow up an entire offensive play. Not just his guy.
As a Knick fan I definitely think Mobley should win DPOY he’s the real reason the cavs are legit.
I love that for a defensive award the Mobley case in this post is centered around his offensive stats first (His triple-slash is meaningless outside of the rebounds) and then it’s team record (Not team defense where the Warriors are better) then raw stock numbers (Where Mobley is ahead by .1 per game) Then finally a comment about only playing 30 minutes per game (Draymond also only plays 29 minutes per game.)
Draymond’s ahead in every advanced statistical measure. D-EPM, D-BPM, D-DPM, D-LEBRON, and he’s on the better team defense. He’s deservedly going to win the award now that Wembenyama’s out for the season. He probably should have won in 2022 and 2016 as well, but this is a fine consolation.
DG to Silver “I don’t know, man, I am thinking of retiring if I don’t get that DPOY.”
Circle jerking is the absolute worst in this sub, no question. Where were all of you in the multiple posts about Draymonds defence that supported his DPOY candidacy? I don’t see any of you harp up in posts that breakdown his defence, staff/coaches saying how valuable he is on defence, etc.
All of the sudden draymond’s a bum and only played good defence when jimmy showed up?
I don’t even care who wins DPOY but y’all are weird af for this energy I’m seeing in this thread.
Draymonds great defense will always be overshadowed by his aggressive fouls, dirty plays, techs and suspensions unfortunately
Legit pathetic for anyone to do that, but since it’s Draymond it’s just laughed off.
Insane Draymond and media who like him for god knows what reason is gaslighting the entire NBA community into giving Draymond the award.
Nothing would make me happier than Draymond losing out on DPOY,.then crying about it on the Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis
That’s the Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis
I would rather any of the other contestants get it than Draymond. Obviously you want your guy to win (Dyson for us) but I’d be okay if any of the other truly deserving candidates got it. All of the other dudes are humble by nature and none of them talk of themselves the way Draymonds clown ass does.
1000% The year that Mobley was runner up (22-23) to JJJ the head scratching thing was voters cited JJJ having more blocks, which tipped things in his favor. But JJJ also fouled out of a ton of games and still does.
How is one a serious DPOY when they can’t stay on the floor? It appears Mobley and Garland have connected those dots, and I am here for their campaign.
That’s gonna end up being a swift kick in the nuts to Luke Travers or Dean Wade next time GSW play the Cavs.
Draymond for dpoy this year is legitimately comical. When is his overrated ass just going to go away
Draymond is pos
I’m sorry but it’s genuinely not close between Mobley and Dray. And as annoying as draymond can be on the court I don’t even mean this as a slight, I’m saying not close with respect to as far apart as I think first and second choice can be for one of these awards. Green is an excellent defender, in argument for one of the best in the league. But Mobley is a key cog on that end of the floor for one of the top teams in the NBA and has been since October. I’ll be seriously stunned if the voters allow dray to talk himself into this award over a more deserving player because that’s all this is.
Agreed. Nobody mentioned Draymond for DPOY until he inserted himself about a month ago. His defense had not been great until that point and everybody is running with it.
If you pick Draymond over Mobley, you have low BBIQ. Draymond gets to hack at anybody which affects shots just because he is a smaller big man and gets no calls.
Hell I’d take Dyson Daniels as DPOY over Draymond
Mobley isn’t in the play in tournament atm either and is actually 1st of his conference too.