Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. are joined by Couper Moorhead of HEAT.com and the ‘After The Buzzer’ podcast to discuss the Heat big man’s chances for receiving any postseason awards. Check out the full conversation on “The Dunker Spot and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Video Transcript
How real do you think his award exploits are this year, Coop?
Like, does he have an All-NBA case on top of, like, a DPOY case?
Well, he does, and, and I’ve been putting these numbers out the past week.
He does have one of the best on-off point differentials, just net rating differentials in the entire league.
Like, he’s below Jokic and Wemby.
He’s just above Shay.
so as, as far as impact, I think he does have an All-NBA case.
Yeah, I And I totally understand how the way all of this works, and people, you know, look at the offensive volume and numbers and everything, and that things don’t always line up.
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So whether or not he gets All-NBA or not, I think he will get votes this year just because the Heat have been as good as they have been on defense.
DPOY, I, I get what it is with Wemby.
I think Wemby is one of the most unique, possibly best defenders we’ve ever seen, and there is this sense that, you know, as long as Wemby is eligible for the award, people gravitate towards him.
I just wanna make sure Bam gets enough of a look because even if he’s not gonna win DPOY, which I do think he is, you know, a ca- a strong candidate for, and to your point, Nicayas, people always have, for years, talked about the Heat’s rebounding, and they have just simply not understood that the Heat are an elite rebounding team when Bam is on the floor.
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This year, he has the single highest defensive rebounding percentage differential in the entire league of anybody.
Mm-hmm.
Nobody has impacted defensive rebounding more than Bam in the league this year.
But even whether or not he wins DPOY, whether or not, you know, everybody loves Wemby, and I, and I’m not Wemby is great, obviously.
I just Last year, he missed all defensive, and that shouldn’t happen.
Bam is an all-defensive level player every single year.
Whether or not he wins the top award or not, I think he needs to be on one of those two teams because he is just that good, that generational of a defender