2025 All defensive teams, Toumani 2nd team!

[SharpesTriumph]

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Looking for 2nd team... I'd think Camara has a chance.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Congrats Toumani!

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Maybe mod can edit title to add Toumani 2nd team!

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Damn when was the last Blazer to win?

Timelord and Thybulle won second team but that was for other teams. Maybe Buck won 35 years ago or something, I can't think of any Blazer winning this.

Edit looks like Pippen won in 2000

https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/all_defense.html

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Toumani with 6 first team votes and 62 second team votes, so on just over 2/3rds of ballots. He was 9th in voting ahead of Rudy Gobert, OG, Bam, Giannis, SGA.

 

[Shaboid]

Congrats Camara!

 

[AldoTrapani]

Lu Dort is a better defender than Toumani?

 

[SharpesTriumph]

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Congrats Toumani!

A little depressing to see Amen and Dyson first team when we could have drafted them both.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Lu Dort is a better defender than Toumani?

I'd say yes - he was arguably DPOY. But Dort's also in his 6th season. Plus Dort has excellent defenders all over that roster.

Toumani has to deal with Ant and Ayton staring at the clouds on defense - plus Grant hiding from rebounds.

 

[Quatro44]

Nice, let's fucking go Toumani.

 

[Cugel]

Congrats Toumani!

A little depressing to see Amen and Dyson first team when we could have drafted them both.

Dont go there.

 

[Strenuus]

How did our team do?

 

[e_blazer]

Congrats Toumani!

A little depressing to see Amen and Dyson first team when we could have drafted them both.

Next year, when Clingan hopefully gets more chance to show his defensive chops, he could crack the list.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

How did our team do?

"Both teams played hard."

- Rasheed Wallace​

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Next year, when Clingan hopefully gets more chance to show his defensive chops, he could crack the list.

Hope he does.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Dont go there.

Why not? I like Scoot and Shaedon. Just sayin'. I'd love it if two guys on our team are all defensive team award winners. Maybe it is Clingan someday.

 

[crandc]

Mazel tov

 

[blazerkor]

Well deserved for Tou. We'll see what the off season moves are but if the guys we retain can build from the kind of defense they were playing at the end of the season we should at least be a lot of fun to watch on that end of the court and in transition.

Just thinking about how much fun it is to watch Tou full court press, get all up in the business of the best guy on the opposing team without doing dirty shit like PatBev or Draymond. I'll never be sure that Tou was seen by our front office as being as big of a get as he was but I'm really glad we have him.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Online polls I'm seeing have Jokic leading with fans by about 8 to 1. Some with over 9000 responses...

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Online polls I'm seeing have Jokic leading with fans by about 8 to 1. Some with over 9000 responses...

Impressive - I didn't realize Jokic was considered to be such an elite defender.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Impressive - I didn't realize Jokic was considered to be such an elite defender.

God damnit. Hey.... Fuck you!

 

[Cugel]

Why not? I like Scoot and Shaedon. Just sayin'. I'd love it if two guys on our team are all defensive team award winners. Maybe it is Clingan someday.

Because hind sight is always 2020

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Because hind sight is always 2020

Except I remember plenty of folks that were super high on Amen and Dyson those drafts.

 

[KingSpeed]

How did our team do?

Didn’t win enough games. Three more wins and we would’ve gotten the #1 pick.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

I’m really happy for Tou. He’s a great success story and I’m glad he’s our dude. I wonder how much management saw this in him or if he was more of a throw in.

 

[HoopsFanAZ]

I liked Daniels > Sharpe, but I have no issue with the pick as Sharpe’s upside is seriously good, still.
I liked Amen > Scoot, but I have no issue with the pick as Amen has his struggles with shooting more than Scoot and is a SF for now.

Toumani has the size, athleticism, skills, and want-to that gives him every chance to be better than Daniels and others.
Nice that Schmitz (and Cronin) insisted that he was part of the trade with DA. Not a throw in.

 

[HailBlazers]

I’m really happy for Tou. He’s a great success story and I’m glad he’s our dude. I wonder how much management saw this in him or if he was more of a throw in.

He showed a lot in summer league.