(08-10-2021, 10:49 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Outside of Luka/DFS, the rest of the team shot 15/74 from three (20%) over the last four play-off games against the Clippers. You better be hell a great at defense, if you want to win a seven game series with the 3rd to 10th best player shooting 20% from three. We need more offensive talent, too.
As we have seen with the Knicks a headcoach can make a hell of a difference for the team defense, but as the Knicks also learned in the play-offs, offensive talent matters most, and they did not have enough of it, so they added Walker/Fournier.
Also, New York did not show that offense is more important than defense. Thibs has a history of getting his teams to play at a playoff level intensity during the regular season (and running his team into the ground in the process). They overachieve in the regular season, but then in the playoffs they don't have another gear to go to.
I think you and I have a fundamental difference in roster construction. While I agree that offensive talent is rarer than defensive, and it is the true premium, defense cannot be ignored. You cannot put a bunch of offense only pieces together, add a defensive player or two and a coach can just turn it into a good defense. Defense does matter, and its why 2 way players are such a premium.