2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Smitty]

Bertans in his career has not been a big negative to his team's D. He generally breaks even. 

SD will be the issue on D from my seat because I don't think he is as good a team defender as DB, BUT he at least has a bigger body and decent wingspan (compared to someone like Kemba or JB). So the tools are there if he can be more locked in to his defensive job and rotations.

To be fair to Kidd, he has me believing DP is a good defender. I'll take the wait and see approach on the new guys buying into what Kidd is selling before i make a blanket statement on them being bad or unable to play defense. Sometimes it can be as simple as effort. Winning generally leads to more effort....