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Mavs had the best offense ever under RC and it did not translate to playoff success. Mavs finally have a good defense. There is potential to improve the offense without nuking the defense.

Anfernee Simons ranks last in DEPM in the entire NBA. Has the worst defensive on/off numbers on his team. Offers no relevant boxscore production on defense. I really don't see it. My eyetest tells me that he is a horrible defender. Stats/metrics rank him as one of the worst (maybe the worst) defender in the entire league.
But for some reason I am supposed to think that he can turn it around if he plays most of his minutes next to Luka and Kyrie (not terrible defenders but more often than not the Mavs try to hide them).

Yeah maybe this year. I already posted his numbers from 2022 and 2023, where he was a significant net positive on/off defensively and overall, but sure you can ignore all those numbers and nit-pick a tanking season he played 46 games to prove he is the worst defensive player in the league.

I get it you all have Dwight Powell - THJ  frontcourt PTSD. The reason we were shit on defense for a decade was that we had shit defenders not guys like DJJ; Washington, Lively, Kleber and Gafford. Those five are literally in the top 6 (with DFS) of the best frontcourt defenders on the Mavs in the last 13 years.  Shocking that no offense can overcome a defense of THJ - Mummy Dirk and Dwight Powell.

I´m done with this discussion. It leads nowhere. Hopefully I don´t have to wait another 13 years to be proven right again.