Ausar Thompson Named Eastern Conference Defensive Player of the Month
Wow, well deserved. I’m going to put a moratorium on my calling his defense underrated.
Now the most underrated is Ron Holland II.
Isiah Stewart is up there too.
Beef Stew is the scariest player in the NBA.
Man plays in barefoot sneakers and will fuck your kitchen up.
Honestly the most underrated is Cade. Cade has been near an all-defense level since December.
He won’t make it because there’s a ton of competition among wings and guards, but he’s playing well enough that it’s defensible and he deserves votes.
We’re all just gonna ignore the big word this guy just used? 😵💫
By fans or by the league? He’s literally recognized by the league as the best defender in his conference for January so that doesn’t make sense
Dude, the point of my comment was that I was misreading the room on the level of respect he was getting.
I’m blind
Since when is there a defensive POTM award?
Pretty sure they just started them last season
I believe its starting next season
2031?
At this point it’s the monthly Pistons defense award lol
I was gonna say, didn’t Stew just win it last month?
Yep
Not surpising since Stew and Ausar are the two best defenders on the at worst 2nd best defensive team in the league
Think it started this season
His defensive stats are crazy - well deserved
Bro is a stud
So well deserved, dude had 5 steals in 19 minutes the other day against the warriors. Absolute menace
It helps that Curry tries some really sloppy passes sometimes, and Ausar Thompson is feasting on them.
Him and his brother are literally exactly as advertised from the draft.
Amen and Ausar are two of the most athletic players in the history of the league.
The way they float is almost doesn’t look real. Ausar just glides through the screens when defending like they aren’t even there
If only they didn’t have muppet hands.
The polite twin has been better defensively this year than his brother the delinquent on the rockets.
His usage rate is only a little higher but Amen does take on a lot more offensive responsibility so the defense is probably gonna suffer a little. Right now Ausar is basically out there for his defense and anything he gets offensively comes from his own defense, cleaning up stuff, or is generated by the offense as a whole.
Back-to-back months with a Piston winning it!
Also, the second consecutive January with a Thompson twin winning it for their respective conference.
DPOY* I’m from the future. He’s been unreal
Maybe I don’t know as much ball as I thought, but I had no idea there were defensive player of the month awards
DPOM had no idea this was an award. NBA gives so much ammo to push narratives
As a Houston Fan I always forget that there is two of These guys in the league
If Ausar learns to shoot just well enough that he has gravity at the 3 point line, he’s going to earn $50 million a year in the near future.
If not, probably half that. It’s just difficult to have a wing player who cannot shoot. Even if they’re in the 99th percentile in most defensive metrics.
Ausar “Amen” Thompson
Scottie fucking robbed
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suck it
The P is for Packers bro
Your team would need to be a lot better in order to fuck the Pistons, Pacers getting fucked by just about every team in the league