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He has no rim protectors, or anyone I would trust to make a defensive rotation..the best defender on the team is who I ask?
If you want to argue he'll never be a head coach of an elite defensive team, sure. But give him a couple of defensive players (Kurt Thomas, Raja Bell, Tyson Chandler, Iman Shumpert) and the team will at least be middle of the pack.
It's when he's stuck with sloths (last year's Lakers) or a group of band-aids (this year's Lakers and his first two years with the Knicks) then yeah, they will be horrendous on defense. But hey guess what, so will every other coach in the league.
He had Dwight Howard, arguably the best rim protector in the league. Now people will say but MDA had like the best second half record in the League, but honestly did you think even when healthy they had a chance to compete for a title last year?
I will not completely buy into this whole "he doesn't have the players to play defense" these are NBA players who are athletic, this is the most athletic team we've had in a while, you can't get them to play a little defense?!
Bazemore, Wes, X, Meeks, Sacre, Brooks, Hill you telling me these guys can't play defense at all. I'm not talking about lock down defense, but like not giving up 120+ every game defense? There has to be something else wrong..