NBA players consider Rudy Gobert league's most overrated
Gobert has the elite résumé, though, with the three DPOY awards, three All-Star appearances, an All-NBA Second Team selection and three All-NBA Third Team nods. He has the receipts from this season, as he was the indisputable anchor of a Minnesota defense that was the best in the league while Gobert finished second in rebounds (12.9) and sixth in blocks (2.1) on a team that came just two wins shy of earning the No. 1 seed in the West (it finished third). And as our resident Timberwolves expert Jon Krawczynski wrote in January, the truth about those Jazz teams was that their lack of perimeter defense was the real problem that was exposed in those playoffs. These Timberwolves don’t have that deficiency. Still, Gobert joins Draymond Green (2019) and Trae Young (2023) as the latest winner of this undesirable award.
Source: The Athletic
Source: The Athletic
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Jon Krawczynski @JonKrawczynski
In an anonymous player poll, Rudy Gobert was voted most overrated player in the league.
Once upon a time, I might have agreed. Seeing him up close, the example he sets, the impact he has, how much he cares shows he’s not overrated. He’s essential. theathletic.com/5434633/2024/0… – 10:10 AM
In an anonymous player poll, Rudy Gobert was voted most overrated player in the league.
Once upon a time, I might have agreed. Seeing him up close, the example he sets, the impact he has, how much he cares shows he’s not overrated. He’s essential. theathletic.com/5434633/2024/0… – 10:10 AM
Eurohoops @Eurohoopsnet
The NBA announced the award finalists, and the European presence was notable
Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic (MVP)
Victor Wembanyama (ROY and DPOY)
Rudy Gobert (DPOY)
Alperen Sengun (MIP) pic.twitter.com/xO9FbFxh2D – 12:18 AM
The NBA announced the award finalists, and the European presence was notable
Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic (MVP) Victor Wembanyama (ROY and DPOY) Rudy Gobert (DPOY) Alperen Sengun (MIP) pic.twitter.com/xO9FbFxh2D – 12:18 AM
Jon Krawczynski @JonKrawczynski
Gobert, Naz and Finch all@awards finalists. pic.twitter.com/en7J260syA – 8:00 PM
Gobert, Naz and Finch all@awards finalists. pic.twitter.com/en7J260syA – 8:00 PM
Tom Orsborn @tom_orsborn
Wemby a lock for rookie of the year and will likely be the runner-up to fellow Frenchman Gobert for DPOY, although a case can be made that it should be the other way around in that category. pic.twitter.com/lMRv7G2HE0 – 6:53 PM
Wemby a lock for rookie of the year and will likely be the runner-up to fellow Frenchman Gobert for DPOY, although a case can be made that it should be the other way around in that category. pic.twitter.com/lMRv7G2HE0 – 6:53 PM
KC Johnson @KCJHoop
Alex Caruso is not a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year award. But he’s virtually a lock to repeat on first team All-Defense.
Rudy Gobert, Bam Adebayo and Victor Wembanyama are finalists for DPOY – 6:43 PM
Alex Caruso is not a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year award. But he’s virtually a lock to repeat on first team All-Defense.
Rudy Gobert, Bam Adebayo and Victor Wembanyama are finalists for DPOY – 6:43 PM
Ira Winderman @IraHeatBeat
Bam Adebayo a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year, along with Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert. – 6:43 PM
Bam Adebayo a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year, along with Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert. – 6:43 PM
Anthony Chiang @Anthony_Chiang
Jaime Jaquez Jr. not among the three finalists for the Rookie of the Year award, but …
Bam Adebayo is among the three finalists for the Defensive Player of the Year award, along with Rudy Gobert and Victor Wembanyama. – 6:42 PM
Jaime Jaquez Jr. not among the three finalists for the Rookie of the Year award, but …
Bam Adebayo is among the three finalists for the Defensive Player of the Year award, along with Rudy Gobert and Victor Wembanyama. – 6:42 PM
Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA
Pretty important, maybe a little under the radar development last night was Rudy Gobert making 6 of his 7 free throw attempts.
This was the one he missed. What’s he looking at over there before the shot? Anyone who was at the game on that side of the floor know? pic.twitter.com/hK7YWhGuQo – 4:24 PM
Pretty important, maybe a little under the radar development last night was Rudy Gobert making 6 of his 7 free throw attempts.
This was the one he missed. What’s he looking at over there before the shot? Anyone who was at the game on that side of the floor know? pic.twitter.com/hK7YWhGuQo – 4:24 PM
Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA
This was the one possession of the KD-at-the-5 minutes that looked a little Terrance Mann-y from the Clippers series for Gobert. But the context of the whole play is important.
If you just go to the end, yeah, it worked — Beal attacked the weakest perimeter defender, forcing pic.twitter.com/686n6K2zyM – 3:49 PM
This was the one possession of the KD-at-the-5 minutes that looked a little Terrance Mann-y from the Clippers series for Gobert. But the context of the whole play is important.
If you just go to the end, yeah, it worked — Beal attacked the weakest perimeter defender, forcing pic.twitter.com/686n6K2zyM – 3:49 PM
Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA
Nice when you’re in a nightmare switch to have Rudy Gobert behind you and Jaden McDaniels on the top-side digging pic.twitter.com/yScAoQ5YSE – 3:30 PM
Nice when you’re in a nightmare switch to have Rudy Gobert behind you and Jaden McDaniels on the top-side digging pic.twitter.com/yScAoQ5YSE – 3:30 PM
Mark Followill @MFollowill
Doing research today and I’m so impressed w/ the difference PJ Washington & Daniel Gafford made on defense in their games here.
On FGA < 6 ft, plyrs shot 51% vs PJ and 52.8% vs Gaff. Comps of the best – Gobert 49.2%, Porzingis 49.8%, Kessler 51.4% & Zubac 51.7%.
On FGA < 10 ft, – 2:58 PM
Doing research today and I’m so impressed w/ the difference PJ Washington & Daniel Gafford made on defense in their games here.
On FGA < 6 ft, plyrs shot 51% vs PJ and 52.8% vs Gaff. Comps of the best – Gobert 49.2%, Porzingis 49.8%, Kessler 51.4% & Zubac 51.7%.
On FGA < 10 ft, – 2:58 PM
Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA
Two things here…
– It’s not that Nurkic isn’t helpful elsewhere for Phoenix, but it is beneficial that he isn’t a shooting threat from deep. Missed a wide open one a couple possessions before this sequence, and on this play Gobert was able to be deep enough to contest the KD pic.twitter.com/CQ3L7OLovu – 1:00 PM
Two things here…
– It’s not that Nurkic isn’t helpful elsewhere for Phoenix, but it is beneficial that he isn’t a shooting threat from deep. Missed a wide open one a couple possessions before this sequence, and on this play Gobert was able to be deep enough to contest the KD pic.twitter.com/CQ3L7OLovu – 1:00 PM
Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA
Asked Rudy Gobert about the minutes Phoenix played without a center on the floor (KD-at-the-5) and about that potentially being an adjustment they go to in future games to try and put Gobert in space more often:
“I think it was good for us. I was kind of prepared for them to do pic.twitter.com/N8DglAt10C – 11:51 AM
Asked Rudy Gobert about the minutes Phoenix played without a center on the floor (KD-at-the-5) and about that potentially being an adjustment they go to in future games to try and put Gobert in space more often:
“I think it was good for us. I was kind of prepared for them to do pic.twitter.com/N8DglAt10C – 11:51 AM
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