Roz Goldenberg

What do you make of this?

What do you think about this award?

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think that it actually worked out nicely, you know, in the sense that Alana Smith is someone who has helped anchor the number one defense in the league in the links.

And especially when Nafisa Collier was out, you know, her defense was really helpful.

And she's one of those defenders where you kind of have to watch to understand that, like, she's coming over from help side.

She's changing shots.

She is a shot blocker.

Um, it's not quite as emphatic perhaps as maybe Asia Wilson, you know, just stuffing someone down.

Although Atlanta does come over with some, some great blocks as well.

But Asia Wilson, I think statistically too, when you're, when you're trying to come up for this award, you know, being second in rebounds, leading the league and blocks, um, exactly to your point, how much her defense fueled the win streak of the aces and her offense.

I mean, just everything Asia Wilson was at the core and center of the aces turning their season around.

Um,

And it's kind of cool, too, because Asia's now in a situation where she could win MVP as well.

So she could be defensive player of the year.

We haven't we haven't heard we haven't gotten the announcement around MVP, but Asia's done that before in 2022, where she was defensive player of the year and the MVP of the league.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think another side of this, too, because I said in 2022, like just to check out these two years that are together in 2022, Asia Wilson was the MVP and the defensive player of the year in 2022.

Alana Smith was out of the league.