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#231: Defensive Player of the Year predictions

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Thinking Basketball

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4.8964 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the best defenders of the early season who are candidates for Defensive Player of the Year. How good is this Timberwolves defense? Will there be another non-big in the race at the end of the year? Will a former winner repeat? Who will win our made up competition? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

I'm thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome

0:10.7

back to another episode and Cody today we thought would get a little a

0:16.9

little crazy we came up with this idea that we would somehow attempt to predict the award winners that they're going to hand out at the end of the year.

0:28.2

Not really because we're Nostradomises or anything, but because we kept talking about sort of not only the

0:35.4

narratives behind these awards but like what are the trends in the early season

0:38.8

who's doing really well on defense who's doing really well in offense what

0:41.8

rookies are popping out and we just

0:43.5

said look let's let's bunch him together let's put our little forecaster hats on

0:49.0

and let's figure it out let's figure out who's going to win these awards.

0:53.0

So I mean, Drew Holiday is going to win the defensive player of the year, right?

0:57.0

Okay, I did not watch the game yesterday.

1:00.0

Because that was yesterday, right, when they played the 76 years.

1:02.4

Which one? Which one? which true holiday performance are you referring to

1:06.0

Pray tell it all I know is I was not watching the game, but I saw some thinking basketball intelligentsia

1:11.2

We're like freaking out about Drew Holiday defending

1:13.8

Joyle and beat I have not seen any clips I didn't watch the game

1:17.2

uh Ben do you want to talk a little bit about what you saw in this performance with

1:21.1

with Drew Holiday v and Bead out on the court?

1:24.4

Yes, holiday V and Bead was a landmark court case in November of 2024.

1:30.0

Cody, we have to go back in time, okay?

1:32.9

Drew Holiday is now defending centers for the Celtics.

1:38.7

I don't know what's going on, but the game before they played the Timberwolves and we're going to talk about the

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