01-28-2023, 08:59 AM
(01-28-2023, 01:06 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: What do we make out of Wood and SD finishing top 10 in player voting. Are their peers higher on them than fans and media? Mavs voting for each other? Both popular and with good connections?
Top 10 by position and by conference. So, really closer to top 40 overall according to the player vote. As I look at the lists, they kind of make sense to me:
Out West at guard the order is Luka, Curry, Ja, SGA, Lillard, Fox, Booker, ANT, SD, McCollom, Simons. In the East, those with more votes include Irving, Mitchell, Brown, DeRozan, Harden, Tyrese, Garland, Brunson, Ball, Holiday and LaVine. He finished with more votes than Trae, Herro, Beal and FVV, but voters weren’t comparing Dinwiddie to those guys. If they were, he might have fallen closer to the mid 20’s. As is, he was the 21st highest vote getting guard in the player vote.
In the front court, the order in the west is Jokic, Lebron, Zion, Markkanen, Sabonis, George, AD, Grant, JJJ and Wood and Steven Adams are tied. Right behind Wood are Bridges, Ingram, Kawhi and Draymond. Injuries and sucker punches probably help Wood by a few slots. In the East, those getting more votes are Giannis, Durant, Embiid, Tatum, Bam, and Paschal. The top 4 in the east are just so dominant that the other vote getters got fewer votes than the guys further down the list in the more divided West. Next in line were Butler, Paulo, J. Allen, Randle Bojan, Mobley and Vuc. Wood would probably land somewhere in there, which again puts him low to mid 20’s overall.
Still, top 45 or so players is probably higher than most of us would have ranked either.
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