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On May 12, before the second game of the Warriors-Spurs series, the league committee announced the winners of the second most important individual honor award of the season - the

All-Star center from the Grizzlies,"White Bear" Marc Gasol won the 12-13 NBA Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY)! The

Spanish-born young wife inherited the delicate footwork of European centers, and in the Grizzlies system created by Hollins, she single-handedly took on the Grizzlies' inside defense this season, making the Grizzlies the team with the fewest points per game this season. With him on the court, the Grizzlies lost only 93.1 points per 100 possessions, ranking first in the league's official statistics, and personally set a record in the Grizzlies' history.

In the voting for DPOY, he received 62 of the 121 first-place votes, with a total vote rate of 29.7%, surpassing the Heat's LeBron James (23.4%), the Spurs' super rookie and this season's"steal king" Joey (9.7%), and the Thunder's block king Segil Ibaka (9.6%) and other defensive players, and was successfully elected as the league's best defensive player in the 12-13 season.

Like Tyson Chandler, the winner of the last Defensive Player of the Year, Chandler's presence on the defensive end is completely beyond the personal data. In the Grizzlies season, he played 80 games, starting every game, and averaged 14.1 points, 7.8 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.4 blocks, and 0.9 steals per game.

The data is not outstanding, but it can limit the opponent's inside scoring rate to less than 38%. This statistic ranks fifth among DPOY winners since the new century.

(Note: Marcus Camby, the NBA's best defensive player in the 2006-2007 season, ranked last in this statistic with 43.6%)

Joey, who appeared on this list and received 17 first-place votes, has also become a topic of discussion among the media.

Before this, no rookie player in the history of the Spurs had ever been in the top three of the list in his first season.

Joey once again"accidentally" broke the Spurs' record.

In fact, with an average of 2.4 steals and 1.3 blocks per game, Joey is actually better than the top two on this list in terms of defensive data alone.

But Joey is a rookie after all. Although his average number of steals per game and total number of steals per season rank first in the league, he often makes"gambling-style" steals in the game, just like Allen Iverson did back then!

Fortunately, his defensive efficiency has always ranked in the top two among players in the same position in the league. When he played as the team's power forward, he even averaged an inside defensive efficiency of 107 per game...

When the statistics of this regular season individual honor were released, the person who felt the most uncomfortable was actually the Bulls' starting center, Joakim Noah.

In his opinion, if it weren't for his"unbridled" remarks at the end of the season, he should be the player to win the DPOY this season!

Especially in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs that just passed, the Chicago Bulls, where he played, defeated the"All-Star-studded" Brooklyn Nets in a tiebreaker. Noah averaged 17.1 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2 blocks per game, which made him very"affirmed" in his defensive level. He even"spoke out loud" on social media before the start of the second round series with the Heat."——

"I'm going to get 10 blocks in a single game against the Heat!" and claimed that he was the biggest"overlooked pearl" in the history of this honor.

These words were ridiculed by the vast majority of the media. They believed that Noah was just upset because he saw Joey was selected for the list and got a high number of votes for the third place...

In fact, this factor was indeed involved.

So, on the same day, May 9, in the first game of the second round of the Eastern Conference between the Bulls and the Heat, Noah and the Spurs'"rookie" who had already played the second game of the Western Conference series with the Warriors"——Joey, secretly competing with each other.

The Big Three of the Heat faced the Bulls at home. With the good performance of the Little Emperor, Wade, and Bosh, the Bulls won the away game with a score of 93:86 and won the series! What is surprising is that Noah, who had vowed to block 10 shots in this game before the game, really did it.

In this game, Noah became the"Great Wall of the Inside" of the Bulls, and repeatedly"rejected" the dunks of the Heat's rim-rushing masters led by James! He scored an"alternative triple-double" of 12 points, 19 rebounds, and 11 blocks in a single game, and repeatedly performed"good shows" of nailing the board, blocking the board, and grabbing the rebound from behind his head in the game.

It can be said that in this game, the Bulls are safer with Noah in the inside than"wearing"!

The Big Three of the Heat lost the game with a total of 61 points. The fifth-ranked Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference once again replicated the miracle of"overcoming the strong with the weak" and pulled the arrogant peak Heat off the altar.

In addition to Noah, other players of the Bulls also performed well in this game.——

""Little Potato" Nate Robinson scored a game-high 27 points, Jimmy Butler played the entire game and contributed 21 points, 14 rebounds and 3 assists, Belinelli scored 10 points and 7 rebounds, Taj Gibson scored 12 points, 6 rebounds and 1 block...

After losing their star player Derrick Rose, the Bulls seemed to play more like a real"team". Under the tactics of coach Thibodeau, they attacked the"weak" inside line of the Heat throughout the game, using the defensive power of Noah, Gibson and other rim protectors to block the forward shooters on the Miami bench and block the shots of Wade and James. The hit rate was limited to less than 42%.

The clue can be seen from the comparison of the total number of rebounds of the two teams. The total number of rebounds of the Bulls is 19 more than that of the Heat. The frontcourt rebounds are their specialty of"second offense". The Heat's empty lineup defects in the interior are fully exposed in this game!

The media, whose focus is mostly on the fiercely competitive Western Conference teams, are gradually beginning to care about whether this post-Jordan era Bulls can compete with the"most powerful" Big Three in the new century?

At this time, Noah's words in the post-game interview also completely angered the little emperor of the South Coast.——

"I never thought it was a stalemate for three All-Stars in their prime to play on the same team, because there will always be nobodies like me and the team behind me who will stand up and tell them……"

"It's not scary to take shortcuts, what's scary is to take shortcuts and be overtaken by others!"

Watching the arrogant Joakim Noah on TV, the Heat's Big Three who have returned to the locker room couldn't help but recall the summer of 2011...

To be precise, it was the summer of 2011, the"German Tank" from Dallas!

Noah, who was"triumphant" in front of the camera at the moment, didn't know that his words had completely angered the three superstars on the South Coast - they vowed to make the Bulls players suffer from their torture all the time in the next series!

This will be an almost undoubted"dimensionality reduction attack""……