TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[omahen]

I do NOT believe that Brunson is "bottom 25% in the league" defensively. Far from it. He wasn't even the guy who got targeted on this team in the playoffs. 

I think Brunson did well defensively. But, Mavs were hiding him through whole playoffs. He was mostly on Royce against Utah, Bridges on Phoenix and Draymond on GSW. Murray would be on complitely different players. 

Luka was targeted because it makes sense to make the offensive focal point work on defensive side. Same as Mavs were targeting CP3, for example.