The NBA’s All No-Defense Team
1-liner, NBA May 12th. 2009, 12:15pmNBA Musings: Recent TBL interviewee Tim Kawakami has compiled the NBA’s All No-Defense Team. It is made up of Kevin Durant, Antwan Jamison, Al Thornton, Peja, and Kevin Martin of the Kings. Martin was named the No-Defense POY. The coach is … no drum roll necessary … Don Nelson of the Kings. The 2nd team: Toronto’s Bargnani, J-Rich, Jamal Crawford, OJ Mayo and Troy Murphy. Worth noting – only one of the 10 players listed reache the playoffs. (Talking Points)
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May 12th, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Nelson coached the Warriors
Where is Jeff Foster on this list?
May 12th, 2009 at 12:24 PM
ENOUGH WITH THE BASKETBALL POSTS!!!
May 12th, 2009 at 12:24 PM
i thought Reggie “Hang Time: Theus coached the Kings
May 12th, 2009 at 12:27 PM
No steve nash? O.J. Mayo is on the list. Does Kawakami even watch the games?
May 12th, 2009 at 12:30 PM
OJ Mayo shouldn’t be on this list, and as overrated as Jamison is, no one that crashes the boards like him can be the worst defensive PF in the league.
Bibby
Ben Gordon
Durant
Z-Bo Randolph
Okur
May 12th, 2009 at 12:33 PM
hate to say it, but Rodney Stuckey is fucking terrible.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:34 PM
nick – can you explain the correlation between rebounding and defense?
May 12th, 2009 at 12:35 PM
defensive rebouding = fewer scoring opportunities for the other team.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Durant had more blocks his first two years than LeBron and he does it from up high, not down low. He doesn’t belong on this list.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Pre-shot attempt, defense is positioning and footwork.
Post-shot attempt, defense is boxing out and going after the ball.
I would never call a guy who’s pretty good at 1/2 of that the worst defensive player in the league. That’s all.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:40 PM
@clown: Lebron might have been one of the worst defensive players his first two years. That doesn’t really paint any sort of positive picture for Durant.
Lebron’s obviously a monster now, of course.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Definitely wouldn’t go that far. Best ever at the chase-down block though. In the half court, still looks lost a lot, and that’s guarding the 4th or fifth option..
May 12th, 2009 at 12:48 PM
it seems like a heavy part of this no-defense team was success (or lack thereof) of the player’s team.
was jamison a terrible defender because he had no PG or C for 90% of the season and playing with a bunch of young kids? or is he just a bad defender.
never been impressed by jamison as an elite player. not even borderline elite. 11 years in the league, 5 trips to the playoffs, only once out of the first round.
is it him or the teams he’s been on?
May 12th, 2009 at 12:50 PM
have you ever considered T-Mac to be elite. most have.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I would never call Jamison elite, either, which is why it was so stupid for Wash to get so much money.
@cursed: In the half court set, he sometimes loses his man off-the-ball as he tries to play passing lanes. That is a weakness. But as far as on the ball defender, Lebron is top 5. He can lock up 1s, 2s, or 3s on the perimeter.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:55 PM
give* not get.
May 12th, 2009 at 1:22 PM
By the way, are Tmac’s playoff stats really 27.6.7? That’s can’t be right, right?
May 12th, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Can’t believe he actually did it. I don’t know whether to be impressed or disappointed.
May 12th, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Bassy Telfair(beating out Foye is is very bad too)
Nick Young
Mike Dunleavy
Jason Thomson
Zach Randolph
May 12th, 2009 at 2:05 PM
@jonesing- impressed
May 12th, 2009 at 2:08 PM
jonesing, i want to know why he needed to apologize. get the fuck out of here with that noise.
May 12th, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Yes. Yes, his stats are very impressive for someone who rarely does anything in the fourth quarter.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:12 AM
I’d like to know, too! It was like 6 inches out of bounds, basically on the court… yeah, there’s 10 guys who are all around 6′6″, 240-ish (on average), and you’re walking around with your thumb up your ass, you may get lightly shoved out of the way when a guy is celebrating a game-winning shot in a huge playoff game. So I thought the call for an apology was ridiculous in the first place. But on the other hand, being a nice enough guy to apologize anyway… again, should I be impressed that he was humble enough to issue that statement? Or disappointed that he didn’t say, “Funk dat”?