(10-15-2019, 11:56 AM)StepBackJay Wrote: I feel better about Delon Wright after last night. I wonder if we could get to a place where Mavs start Wright, Luka, DFS, Maxi and KP so as to play some decent defense? I am still worried about our interior defense. KP is not really flying around the paint as much as I expected from his career highlight reel. Maxi is looking good, I wonder if he could push for a starting spot at some point. I just feel like an interior of KP and Powell is not going to cut it on defense. I very much wanted Derrick Favors to be KP's running mate out there (still do). I am not convinced this can be an average or better defensive team as constructed.
I like your proposed starting lineup. It seems like your concern, primarily, is how our bigs will handle interior defense. I'm actually more concerned with how our 2-big lineups will handle the perimeter power forwards (who are now wings much of the time). For that reason I like a Luka/Delon/wing/DFS/KP starting lineup. Looks like that won't happen though.
Regarding interior defense, I think KP will be much better in the regular season than he has been in the pre-season. Also, I think that the effectiveness of our defense will depend a lot on whether or not our lineups can build a good team defense.