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Again Holiday and White are perimeter shooters. They are not routinely beating their man off the ball. Their offense comes off of secondary action.   Luka and Kyrie are going to get beat off the dribble some of the time, it's how the rest of the defense reacts as a group.  

Regardless the Mavs problem hasn't been on more defensive.   It's been more offense.

The Mavs offense gets drastically better with another ball handler/creator in the lineup.

Holiday scored 26pts on 4 3PA attempts just a few days ago but he is just a perimeter shooter.
But you are almost there. Team defense is more important than individual defense. Everyone is getting beat off the dribble. That's why it is so important to limit the amount of mismatches and make sure that you have multiple good help/team defenders on the floor. For the Mavs that's mostly about DJJ and PJ. Two big and switchable wings/forwards that can cover a lot of ground. Replacing one of them with a defensive liability is the best way to undo all the improvements we saw over the last 2-3 month.
Why should the Mavs risk that. Simons would cost a lot. For the same price you can probably get a DJJ/PJ upgrade that can do more on offense if you desperately want to use multiple picks in the offseason.