DeMarcus Cousins -- DPOY?

[Bricklayer]

Uh huh.

Consider:
1) Oncourt/Offcourt Defensive +/- (per 100 possessions):
Cousins (SAC) -11.8
Gortat (WSH) -9.2
Bogut (GSW) -6.9
Davis (NOP) -6.6
Howard (HOU) -5.3
Chandler (DAL) -3.3
Noah (CHI) -2.0
Duncan (SAN) -1.0
Jordan (LAC) +2.2
Hibbert (IND) +2.5
Drummond (DET) +3.0
Gasol (MEM) +5.3

2) Top 10 in DPRM (Defensive Real Plus Minus)
1. Bogut 5.96
2. Cousins 4.92
3. Duncan 4.69
4) Allen 4.61
5) Nurkic 4.48
6) Green 4.32
7) Whiteside 4.31
8) Ibaka 4.15
9) Middleton 4.10
10) Leonard 4.02

3) Per36min Defensive Rebounds/Steals/Blocks of Cousins vs. Last 3 DPOY:
Cousins 14-15: 9.8Dreb 1.5stl 1.8blk
JoNoah 13-14: 7.9Dreb 1.3stl 1.5blk
MGasol 12-13: 5.6Dreb 1.0stl 1.8blk
Chandler 11-12: 7.0Dreb 1.0stl 1.6blk


So...there.

 

[mac]

Based on my limited understanding defensive +/- would be skewed given how bad the rest of our team is defensively though. You could easily say that Cousins is the best defensive player on our team, and perhaps impacts his team defensively more than any other player on theirs. Our weak bench also adds to that because Cousins rarely plays with the bench. But that's just a relative thing, and doesn't necessarily = DPOY.

 

[IfAt1st]

Brick, you keep putting up great stat threads which show the impact of Demarcus, but you keep underestimating how badly he is perceived by the majority of the NBA audience (and overestimating the importance of stats).

Defensive Player of the Year is a gifted award.
There is no way in hell Demarcus will be given it, regardless of what any stat could show.

Individual Stats will not win Boogie any serious award.

His team (whether its the Kings or another team once this FO is stupid enough to lose him) will have to win, and he will have to do damage in the postseason for his image to SERIOUSLY change to the point where he would be realistically in the running for awards like DPotY and MVP, etc.

 

[NowImLost]

He's a cry baby on the court.

 

[Spike]

He's a cry baby on the court.

If only he were more composed, like Joakim Noah.

 

[KingsFanGER]

Who cares about individual awards? The only thing I want to see is the Kings starting to win again and making their way to the playoffs. Once our team moves forward the individual awards will follow.

 

[dude12]

He's a cry baby on the court.

Brilliant analysis that added a lot to the thread.

 

[Chubbs]

Yeah, but he really needs to work on his defense and finishing at the rim if he wants to be a star in this league.

 

[King Baller]

He's a cry baby on the court.

 

[jalfa]

the DPOY tends to the guy anchoring the league's best defensive team. for that reason alone, I'm afraid Cousins has no shot whatsoever.

 

[kingsboi]

too bad he won't ever get it based on his reputation and him putting up 23 and 12.....instead they'll look at the flashy players such as DeAndre Jordan and go from there.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

the DPOY tends to the guy anchoring the league's best defensive team. for that reason alone, I'm afraid Cousins has no shot whatsoever.

In a similar light, the DPOY award has been around since 1982. 32 of these awards have been handed out. The number of DPOY awards given to players on teams that did not make the playoffs? Zero.

That doesn't mean it can't happen, but the voting trend seems to have been established.

 

[LPKingsFan]

I recall seeing references to a stat that compared the production of a player's opponent versus the opponent's expected production, as a measure of that player's defensive impact. I don't remember the name or where I saw it, though. Curious how Cousins fares there.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

the DPOY tends to the guy anchoring the league's best defensive team. for that reason alone, I'm afraid Cousins has no shot whatsoever.

Based on my limited understanding defensive +/- would be skewed given how bad the rest of our team is defensively though. You could easily say that Cousins is the best defensive player on our team, and perhaps impacts his team defensively more than any other player on theirs. Our weak bench also adds to that because Cousins rarely plays with the bench. But that's just a relative thing, and doesn't necessarily = DPOY.

It worked for Tyson Chandler...

 

[Flopi]

The plus/minus stats can be perceived in 2 ways :
1) Boogie is a defensive monster
2) The rest of the team is absolutely terrible defensively

 

[Heuge]

Hard to argue a DPOY for a player on one of the worst defensive teams in the league.

Another year...

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Hard to argue a DPOY for a player on one of the worst defensive teams in the league.

Another year...

Worked for Marcus Camby.

 

[IfAt1st]

I absolutely LOVED watching that game.
To see Noah meltdown after those bad calls when he had to deal with just a fraction of the bullcrap Boogie has had to on the floor, showed me how little experience other big men really have shared with Demarcus.

It's VERY easy for big men to say "Just do this/that" "Just play hard and don't worry about the officials" but when they become the receiving end of completely unfair and inconsistent ref attention (touch fouls called on them while no fouls called when they are hammered by the other team) and they lose their composure, it reveals to everyone how much their words are just for show.