TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Pretty much. Both are equally important. Last 40 years championships won without being top 10 in offensive rating: 4. Last 40 years championships won without being top 10 in defensive rating: 3. Interestingly the Mavs are the only team that won a championship without being top 7 in either category.

Yes, both are equally important. Because offense is defense, and defense is offense. They play against one another, and that's why they are equal. Scoring two points is the same value as rescuing two points. The question is whether your offense beats the other defense more than the other offense beats your defense. So they are equally important. There is no way you win a championship without either.

Our offense is far from good enough to win a championship. If we add one or two more pieces with skills as SD or CW, we will have the best offense in the league.

On defensive side players like Luka and Cwood are amazing on defense and proving many people wrong. Many offensive players around the league are labelled wrong as bad defensive players. When you score easy, you tend to get easy back on defense and be fresh for making the stop. Conversely, if you can't score, the other team has a fastbreak and your defense has no chance.

Not only are the defense and offense equally important. They are interconnected. Offense is defense, and defense is offense. Thus, without offensive skills, you will never ever be a great defensive player.

I dont care how good sometimes DFS, THJ, Bullock tend to appear on defensive side. If they cant execute on offense and make a miss when they have offensive space, the other team will make a fastbreak and you can forget about their 3&D skills- they have negative value on offense and defense.

When CWood, Luka, SD execute offensively and use the space correctly, then our defense has a chance to come back and set the defensive formation and perform much better.

As soon as you have one player in your lineup that cant execute on offense, in theory the opponent can leave the space there and that player when missing the offensive opportunity will make the entire defense at risk, despite having "defensive skills".

In other words. You cant play defense without playing offense. And vice verca.

So this team needs to forget about the 3&D players without offensive skills and bbIQ. We need to add players with offensive skills, and being around CWood, SD, Luka, we will score so many points and get back and play much better D than you can imagine.

I just know when we score points and set the D well, both Luka and CWood and SD can and do play D and we make stops. When the Bullocks and THJs etc. are missing offensive assignments, take terrible shots, misuse the offensive space left, we play horrible D. its not a coincidence.

Trade for one or two players with offensive skills like SD and CWood. No need for superstars. The team will explode. On both ends of the floor. Luka and CWoods defensive game will become better once the team executes on offense. At the moment this team is being held down by two positions in the starting lineup that just dont have the offensive bbIQ and flow and multiskill level to play the same game/scheme as Luka, SD, CWood. The last three mentioned are a complete fit. So was Brunson. It is no wonder that once CWood is out that the opponent choses to double Luka every single play. Lukas perfect match on offense and defense is not the 3&D guy that shoots only. Its the guy that can use the space in multitude of ways, shoot put the ball on the floor, pass dribble, finish around the rim. In other words Brunson, CWood, SD. If Luka is surrounded by CWood, SD and one or two more players of this caliber, you will see both the offense and defense exploding. You will see our "offensive" players that show much better intensity and positioning on defensive side, and us outscoring the opponents with ease. Its no wonder that when CWood and SD both are in the lineups that doubling of Luka becomes harder. One or two more of offensive skills players and other teams will not have a chance playing against us. On both sides.