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Message: [QUOTE="Malamute, post: 4561109, member: 12379"] Kalkbrenner DPOY, I just don’t get it. Watched several Creighton games this year and while he is a good player, we have 2 guys just on our team that are better defensively than he is, Sanogo and Ajax, not to mention guys from other teams like Soriano or Carter who I think are as tough as they come. Don’t think Kalk does anything special defensively, especially with his primary responsibility. This led me to peek at some box scores for Kalk to get a better feel for his heads up play against some of the more notable players. By no means is this an exhaustive study but it does confirm what I suspected and what I saw with my own eyes and that is he is not a lock down defender against his primary guard heads up. Only points listed. Soriano - 17 points, 15 Points Ighodaro - 18 points Sonogo - 26 points, 17 points Wahab – 14 points (averages 10) Nebraska Center – 22 points My favorite – Dixon – 31 Points, 20 Points Games he missed (Better?): Ighodaro - 16 points (less than when Kalk played) BYU Center – 5 points (Avg. 5) Ari. State Center – 7 points (Avg. 9.3) I am sure he had some good games like holding Nunge to 15 & 9 (averages 14), and he is good at help side D (Avg. 2.2 blocks), but do these numbers even remotely add up to DPOY? I think not, and didn’t think so last year either. [/QUOTE]