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[dirkfansince1998]

You all act like Luka, Kyrie and Simons are complete bums on defense. The biggest part about defense is whether you have the brains for it and they do. With Lively/Gafford/DJJ/Washington behind those three, you can certainly get away with it for 10-15 minutes and use it longer if the match-up is favourable. Cause for all their alleged defensive flaws, I have a hard time thinking of a scarier offensive five in the whole league than Luka, Kyrie, Simons, Washington and Lively, especially if Lively starts shooting threes. How do you defend that? So even if this was the worst defense ever than it´s also the best offense ever.

Mavs had the best offense ever under RC and it did not translate to playoff success. Mavs finally have a good defense. There is potential to improve the offense without nuking the defense.

Anfernee Simons ranks last in DEPM in the entire NBA. Has the worst defensive on/off numbers on his team. Offers no relevant boxscore production on defense. I really don't see it. My eyetest tells me that he is a horrible defender. Stats/metrics rank him as one of the worst (maybe the worst) defender in the entire league.
But for some reason I am supposed to think that he can turn it around if he plays most of his minutes next to Luka and Kyrie (not terrible defenders but more often than not the Mavs try to hide them).