2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

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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.

Well can you get such a two player right now?

This team needs an infusion of overall talent. We are basically a mirror image of our SummerLeague team (slightly exaggerated), except that SummerLeague team has no Luka Doncic.

Since we are/have been absolutely trash at drafting, we simply have to add TALENT whenever we can. Be a lot easier, if we had drafted Bey, Maxey or Pokusevski instead of Green. Or Bane, Quickley or Maledon instead of Terry, but we have not.

Markkanen fills a lot of needs, especially as a Porzingis trade/injury insurance. Who is going to provide that scoring punch, if Porzingis goes down? Powell, WCS, Kleber, Boban, Brown?

I know we need to be better at defense, but defense is played almost situationally in the NBA today, because the rules simply make even 24 minutes of good defense impossible. What´s played 48 minutes is offense.