Naismith national awards:

Our next award goes to Johnathan Bagwell as our Division I Defensive Player of the Year. The 6'7", 213 lbs. Senior had nearly 0.6 blocks per game (not to mention the altered shots) to go along with 3 defensive boards per game for the University of Oregon.

Can you imagine the altered shots?  There must have been at least one every other game!  And way to vacuum up those defensive boards.

(Not complaining about the choice, but just poking fun at the write up.)

How does this guy win?

How many steals per game?

Only 1.7 steal per game.

To add on: He stopped his opponents 76 % of the time and he only allowed his opponents to score 87.3 points per 100 possessions. The best on a GOOD Oregon team by a lot, didn't do every D1 team cause I don't have the info, and it took me awhile to find that Oregon team.

I think he got chosen because he is able to stop the initial shot. Isn't that what defense is about?

If you had other candidates and their team stats, I could tell you who should've really won.

Posted by zsap on 5/18/2011 8:28:00 PM (view original):
To add on: He stopped his opponents 76 % of the time and he only allowed his opponents to score 87.3 points per 100 possessions. The best on a GOOD Oregon team by a lot, didn't do every D1 team cause I don't have the info, and it took me awhile to find that Oregon team.

I think he got chosen because he is able to stop the initial shot. Isn't that what defense is about?

If you had other candidates and their team stats, I could tell you who should've really won.

Those stats don't mean very much without context (i.e. SOS) ... very difficult to make a direct comparison between players in difference conferences.

But this award is purely statistical (and I don't mean sabremetrics, i mean basic stats such as bl/st), with a sprinkle of team success mixed in. It didn't have anything to do with his stop rate or anything of that sort. The write-up was just a little silly that it included his block #'s instead of his steal #'s.

Posted by girt25 on 5/19/2011 12:47:00 AM (view original):

Posted by zsap on 5/18/2011 8:28:00 PM (view original):
To add on: He stopped his opponents 76 % of the time and he only allowed his opponents to score 87.3 points per 100 possessions. The best on a GOOD Oregon team by a lot, didn't do every D1 team cause I don't have the info, and it took me awhile to find that Oregon team.

I think he got chosen because he is able to stop the initial shot. Isn't that what defense is about?

If you had other candidates and their team stats, I could tell you who should've really won.

Those stats don't mean very much without context (i.e. SOS) ... very difficult to make a direct comparison between players in difference conferences.

But this award is purely statistical (and I don't mean sabremetrics, i mean basic stats such as bl/st), with a sprinkle of team success mixed in. It didn't have anything to do with his stop rate or anything of that sort. The write-up was just a little silly that it included his block #'s instead of his steal #'s.

Yes, as far as I know their is no way to have an SOS involved, but Stop % is based off of things like steals and blocks as well, because they are STOPS so I'm saying that this is relative to the basic stats, it is a result of the basic stats and how many minutes he played to benefit his team the most.