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What happened to Rudy Gobert's defense? La Velle E. Neal III takes on three topics

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Introduction: Host Michael Rand noticed a lot of angst over Jaden McDaniels not being named to an All-NBA defensive team on Tuesday. Rand's thought: McDaniels is good, but his time will come. The bigger takeaway from the defensive voting is that Wolves center Rudy Gobert — a first-team defensive player the last six years and a Defensive Player of the Year three timesVoting for the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year showed — didn't get a single vote to be on this year's team. It underscores that he was far from being the player the Wolves thought they were getting in last summer's blockbuster trade.