(03-05-2018 04:01 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  The all-defensive team is amusingly wrong, which I assume is because whoever votes just looks at steals and blocks. If you look purely at individual defense (i.e. PPP by the guy a player was guarding...a flawed stat in its own right but certainly more useful than blocks + steals), the players on the all-defensive teams rank as follows:

Beard = 39th
Penava = 52nd
Dixon = 92nd
Caver = 4th (he's actually a really good defender)
Lee = 48th

This is the same reason why Marcus Evans was picked all-defensive despite being a terrible defender both his freshman and sophomore years. If you looked at individual defense, the team would look something like this:

Justin Johnson
Ahmad Caver
Keaton Wallace
Byron Frohnen
Xavier Green or Alante Holston

I get that it's really hard to quantify defensive impact, especially because you can't measure stuff like how well a guy knows his zone assignments, for example, but I'd love for the conference to actually try to reward good individual defenders. And that's my weekly rant about something that is of absolutely no importance whatsoever and has no impact on anything.