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I have been wondering the same thing. I'd love to see someone push back at him on his repeated but fully unsupported claim that the best defense wins the title. While BOS won a year ago with the #1 defense, how often does the #1 defense FAIL to win a title?

What if you trade away your ability to score, for another defender? Will the defense save you?

The complete sentence was always "offense wins games, defense wins championship".

It is with the idea that any contender will have good offense, and the difference makers are defense. 

JJ Reddick talked about it last year, saying that now it is more about the ability to get stops when needed especially in the 4th

Last year Boston was 3rd in the regular season btw, not first. They were first on offense