Tyson Chandler Named Defensive Player of the Year

Yeah.. as a NY resident and Knick watcher, Tyson brought a great energy, enthusiasm, and team comradeship to MSG. Players felt better about making plays, because they were encouraged to by his great attitude. THAT. IS. IT.

I never said Battier doesn’t make a difference. I said he is not the primary defender. At times does he guard the opposing teams best player? ofcourse. But he isn’t tasked with doing that when the game is on the line, unless as I said earlier, their is another match-up where LeBron is needed more (guarding Pau against the Lakers, Battier on Kobe). I am not trying to take anything away from Battier as a defender, he is great. And I am not trying to make LeBron sound like the best defender since Scottie Pippen. I am just simply trying to get the point across that LeBron was literally the most effective wing defensive player in the NBA this season, guarding any player at any position. Were there guys that were better overall defenders? imo, yes, Dwight & Tyson were better, and Tony Allen was probably better too. But in terms of literal factual, measurable production, nobody was.

Orange gotta hold of Taylor’s info. lol

GOOGLE SUCKS! Why argue or debate about something when you know it will be researched, because all we have to do is google it! Whatever happened to watching the game and then you make your assessment…. now days we just pull up the stat sheet and it tells the whole story. Now everyone these days are CREDIBLE SPORTS FANS because they spend hours surfing stats. I say that to say this….. Tyson Chandler deserved every bit of that award based off the games I’ve watched him play. + he was a huge factor defensively in the Dallas Championship run in 2011. DONE!

@nbk, no i dont like google because of the ppl who obsessively abuse it(i dont hate the player i hate the game)….If I was voting yes I would give it to him based off the games ive watched, i’m guessing you wouldnt based off the games you didnt watch…. and solely off of stats correct? F Stats thats why we have ppl making extra passes on a fast break when they have a wide open layup and the commentators say stuff like “boy i love that guy, he’s such an unselfish player”…. they just dont know he is adding to his assist total. LOL

I can guarantee you I watch more NBA basketball than 95% of all the people who frequent these comment sections, and 99.9% of people on earth. Not tryna start anything or sound any certain typa way, just saying, my opinion is not dependent on any one thing, (stats, articles, or games watched). My opinion comes from taking in all available information and forming a logical reasonable opinion from it. I would have voted for Dwight (begrudgingly), but don’t have a problem at all with Tyson winning the award, or Tony Allen, Andre Iguodala, or LeBron James. My point is just that you can’t solely base your opinion on who should get what award by the games you have watched because, quite simply, it’s impossible to watch every game from every team, so therefore there will always be a whole in your opinion. Not too say my opinion is more right than anyone else’s, but it is more “well rounded” than most.
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And it is a fact that advanced stats are more accurate at just about everything than peoples opinions. Even the “professional analysts” – BUT some “advanced stats” people really screw up the perception because they peddle their stats as concrete evidence of a claim, like John Hollinger for example. If you want to read a great article about the strengths and weaknesses of using stats to determine opinions click my name.

Still in the same shape I been in. You still don’t know what your talking about. Status Quo.
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And Advanced Stats would show those guys to be good defenders. You just again, don’t know what you are talking about.

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- Heat guard Dwyane Wade told the Associated Press last week that he hopes to see LeBron pick up both awards. Wade wants to attend both press conferences for historical value. ‘He’s doing things that probably nobody else in the league has ever been asked to do,’ Heat forward Chris Bosh said of LeBron’s defensive requirements. “I mean, really, who is doing that?’”
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- Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said he spent significant time meeting privately with LeBron last season about embracing the burden he would have to carry in Miami defensively. This season, the communication is less verbal, and sometimes all it takes is a nod between the two. ‘We went through a lot of the ramifications and teaching points last year, so this year it’s much more efficient,’ Spoelstra said. ‘Frankly, we need him to be the most dynamic defensive player in the league for us to be successful.

I’m not upset, I’m very calmly telling you, You don’t know what you are talking about. Because you honestly don’t. No emotion involved. Just a plainly obvious observation.

Whoaaa MeloMan15, be careful, NBK might get upset about that comment lol, cuz that is just absurd to think that! lol

LOL they’re definitely not, i guess i understood but to use “crazy athletes” to describe them is wrong BUT let us allll wait for NBK to come tell us how wrong he is because he is all knowing LOL, all you my man, go ahead…

Should have been Josh Smith.

All NBA players are crazy athletes. Oliver Miller, Greg Ostertaag, Kevin Duckworth and Manute Bol included.

Great discussion here.
I wouldn’t have been angry if Lebron had won the award, but I’m not really angry that Tyson won it.

Jukai, I just want Lebron to hold me against the backboard and put work in in the low post. If he did that, he’d be my DPOY and MVP

From 22 to Top 5 in defensive categories. No need to say more. Also, Shump was a big part of that. Lebron is just a freak of nature, he deserves his praise. But Tyson has been the only consistent thing about the Knicks this season. Dude put in work on the defensive end from day one. Well earned.

Tyson Chandler, Ben Wallace, Dwight Howard, Alonzo Mourning, Gary payton, Dikembe Mutombo, Ron Artest, Hakeem, David Robinson, Micheal Jordan. all these players have won the award in the last 20 years. If all in their prime who is the worst defender??

The fact that this dude wins it, says alot about the quality of defense, or lack thereof, in the league right now… SMH

@deadbored ..not going to respond to your condescending reply, Instead Im just going to tell you my 2cents. I think that Lebron deserves this award more than Tyson Chandler …and Im not even a LBJ fan..

@deadbored must be a Knick fan

game 3 in MSG! cant wait to see Tyson display his defensive prowess by sliding to the side when somebody’s bout to dunk.

who and when was the last person to win DPoTY that WAS NOT a big man?

its kind of a bad joke that bruce bowen never won it. and if u followed the knicks in the 90s its also strange that chandler is the first knick to win that award

Bruce Bowen? Only if the D stood for Dirtiest Player of the Year. Lebron deserved this award although I can see the arguement for Chandler. I’m not that upset about it. @nbk, as much as you ALWAYS try to say you’re not upset when people disagree with you the fact is you get quite perturbed. You have a bit of know it all superiority complex that comes out occasionally too. When you are “dismayed at someone’s ignorance” and tell everyone that disagrees with you that they don’t know what they’re talking about, it can make you look like a complete d-bag. Find a better way to present your points that are also not almost completely stats related and you might have an easier time of it. Just a suggestion. BTW, you’ve done a much better job of using “your”, and “you’re” the past couple weeks. Thanks for that

Yeah co-sign Juks, LeBron probably deserved it but I’m not mad that Chandler got it.