Here’s why: he had dominant seasons where he lead the league in blocks. He has SO MANY dopys and he’s an elite athlete fo being 7’1, most people that tall can’t move much and aren’t fast. And compare him to others around his hight, Kristaps Porzingis, Walker Kessler, while they’re both 7’1 they play very different basketball, but neither defend like Rudy Gobert, so this shows that Ruby isn’t just dominant because of his height. For a while before he was traded to Minnesota, Utah had the top defensive rating and the least point scored against per game for I think 4 or 5 seasons in a row, he and Don lead Utah to the 1 seed as a small market team that no one wants to play for so they made everything they had on that team from scratch. While they’re never made a finals run Rudy made something else:

A case for the Top 5 Defesnive Players OAT!