Big Ben 2021 HOF

[Controversy]

Back in the early 2000s I don't think anyone paid attention to defensive rating, defensive box plus minus, defensive win shares, RAPTOR, etc. They used the eye test and rep and they decided Ben Wallace was the best defender in the entire NBA four times.

But it probably means something that literally EVERY defensive measure ever invented shows that Big Ben was by far the most dominant defender of his era. From 2002 to 2007 he was the best defender in the NBA literally any way you measure it. The eye test and the metrics have never matched so perfectly.

Ben Wallace Anchored A Damn Good Pistons Squad

Why didn't Ben defend all of the all star bigs Detroit played against...why was it almost always Sheed?

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Why didn't Ben defend all of the all star bigs Detroit played against...why was it almost always Sheed?

Sheed was a PF guarding other PF such as Duncan?

 

[Controversy]

Sheed was a PF guarding other PF such as Duncan?

Duncan was playing the 5 in that series, hence him defending Big Ben on the def end