09-04-2020, 04:55 PM
(09-03-2020, 08:39 PM)KillerLeft Wrote:(09-03-2020, 08:22 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: For whatever reason the Mavs rarely trade for or sign high impact defenders. Most of the time they try to add defenders through the draft or even sign undrafted players. Not really sure why. Maybe they just struggle to evaluate defensive talent. Maybe they have a offense first mentality. I just hope that they will change their approach in the future and don´t repeat the mistakes of the Dirk era. They wasted half of his prime with offensive minded rosters that lost in the playoffs because they couldn´t defend anyone.
In my opinion, it's not defensive players they have trouble finding, it's two-way players. Wright IS an impact defender, for example, but he doesn't know how to play off the ball on offense, so he's literally unplayable on a good team.
This is why I would 100% not give up on KP, Kleber or DFS, who are pretty much the only two-way players on the team.
By no metrics is Wright an impact defender. A passable one yes, maybe slightly over average. You can tell that this team is really lacking defense if we're throwing around the term impact defender to describe Delon Wright. Our defensive rating in the Clippers series was 121.4 as a team, that's only the 4th worst defensive single season playoff performance of all time and doesn't happen to a team that doesn't have a problem with doesn't have trouble finding defensive players