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Ultimately, either way, I have some faith that all of the 3 will bow to "what it takes to win." Which means that, if I am correct that playing all 3 together will not be a good lineup, they will all 3 get on board with doing something better.

If you think their egos are too big for that, I understand why you think that, but I have faith. And fwiw I also have faith in Kidd and his ability to get the team to follow his lead, along with his desire to have a team that has a lock-down defense in crunch time. That's his formula imo. That was how his title team worked.

I agree with your summation. I would suggest, however, that the 3-star offense, combined with what DLive/Gaff brings as lob targets, could be a form of defense in that the opponent will tasked with matching the output. A task that most other teams are not prepared.

I think you can just look at DAL last year and see how discouraged they got when they were unable to get stops and let it pressure their offensive play into bad decisions (i.e., hero ball, no pass 3pt attempts, etc.). Despite their defensive chops, BOS took the air out of DAL when they just kept scoring, no matter what Kidd tried.

I loved the defensive lift PJ, DLive and Gaff brought and it won games, but if Luka or Kyrie was off (maybe Hardaway, too?) then the scoring could get hard to come by. I anticipate the new team will have more offensive options to keep the output up. I'm also encouraged that, if the game gets scrappy, then DAL has the flexibility to play that way too.