Let’s get this out of the way first. Matisse Thybulle is not going to win Defensive Player of the Year. I know it. You know it. If you asked Matisse about it, he would probably point to it as a goal of his, because when you’ve already made it as a professional athlete, you need to keep raising the bar of success higher and higher to avoid stagnation, but he also knows it.
The point of this article is not to argue that Thybulle should win Defensive Player of the Year, which won’t stop people who don’t actually read this from quote-tweeting or replying to the post and saying what a bozo I am.