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Exactly. If the 6th man is a high salary guy, he has to be able to play productive minutes with Kyrie and Luka on the court. Which means he has to be an above average defender.

We´ll just have to disagree, while I sit on my PJ Washington high horse and refer to these numbers

Opponents OFF RTG last three years

Washington 123.4 (110.7 in DAL) / 117.1 / 114.3
Simons 122.5 / 117.8 / 114.9

It´s almost like the same. Mind blown. Players tend to play worse defense on worse teams with the intention to lose.

WTF you always refer to him as a 6th man. There are 96 minutes at PG/SG alone and Luka is build like a SF/PF. Furthermore you people do realize that Kyrie will be 33 in January. Since you clearly think very little of Hardy, where does this offense comes from, when Kyrie needs more rest or even worse falls off a cliff.

Also good to know that Luka/Kyrie/Simons can´t work, when in both of Luka´s deep play-off runs, he was actually a large net positive on defense, but BARELY a net positive on offense. That clearly indicates that the offensive talent around him is the problem in the play-offs, unless we all got Luka completely wrong and he´s more Alex Caruso than Larry Bird.