Experts have recently announced that the winner for the Defensive Player of the Year Award has been granted to Orlando Wyman, a key forward for the New York Bricks. Using our current statistical tracking system, defensive capability is difficult to monitor. Especially as we currently don't record shot-specific defenders and other pressure metrics. However, Orlando has truly separated himself from other DPOY cadidates, specifically when it comes to blocking. Orlando, who tallied an astonishing 19 blocks on the season, had more blocks than anyone else in the league by a mile. To put this into perspective, Carlton had the second-highest blocks made this season with 9. And furthermore, the league average is 2.9. On top of all this, Orlando has a blocks to blocks received ratio of 19 also. The second highest is Jake with 4. In culmination, Orlando averages 1.9 blocks per 10 minutes of play. The second highest of this is 0.6. But it isn't just blocking where Orlando stands out. He averages 3.2 rebounds per 10 minutes of play (59% of which are defensive), and that's the 5th highest in the league this season. The only defensive metric that Orlando isn't quite as strong is turnovers forced. He has a total of 4 this season while the average is 5.7. But he does better with steals, averaging 1 steal per 10 minutes of play, decently above the league average. Orlando's suffocational blocking skills, heavy rebounding, and theft-like possesion handling have fully convinced us that Orlando is deservant of the DPOY title, as he continues to have an impact on ABL history.

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Statistics shown are drawn from the latest records of Play-By-Play data confirmed through game footage.

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Orlando Wyman, ABL Management Team