Players With Most Top 10 Defensive Rating Season

[Mr Feeny]

Basketball is team sport .

So Larry Bird is a better defender than Michael Jordan?
And more than 3 times a better defender than Lebron James?

[Harison]

Basketball is team sport .

All metrics are good if you know what they represent, how to use them and whats their limitation.

Otherwise it can be used to mislead people, like it was done with PER (and it became a joke stat, not because it is, but because how its misused), and thats what you are doing here with defensive rating

[feyki]

So Larry Bird is a better defender than Michael Jordan?
And more than 3 times a better defender than Lebron James?

Bird played as PF first half of his career . Oliver looks technically and he overrate rebounding . I don't think Bird was better defensive player than Jordan . But I think he had better defensive impact than Lebron . Lebron's athleticism and lockdown defence overrated his defensive impact .

[feyki]

All metrics are good if you know what they represent, how to use them and whats their limitation.

Otherwise it can be used to mislead people, like it was done with PER (and it became a joke stat, not because it is, but because how its misused), and thats what you are doing here with defensive rating

Correct .

I didn't say anything about Defensive Rating . I did just share .

[Gileraracer]

So Larry Bird is a better defender than Michael Jordan?
And more than 3 times a better defender than Lebron James?

First no, second yes

[swagga]

Crazy that Timmy has 0 DPOYs on his mantle.

1. no monkeyball/fake emotion/self promotion => no media love
2. always had great results => no "new" factor
3. also very heavy competition (early 00s ben wallace and kg, late 00s peak dwight howard).

still marc gasol camby, artest, noah were just bad picks .. clearly inferior to duncan.

[Dr Hawk]

First no, second yes

****tard

[Pointguard]

Here's how the all-time great perimeter players do by this metric

Bird - 6

Jordan - 4

Lebron - 2

Kobe - 0

Magic - 0

Kind of kills the significance of the stat. Though looking at an anchor could be different. Team defenders never do to well with that stat either. How does Pippen do?