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Originally Posted by St. Pats
Can they put out a unit that can play really well defensively? Wright, Powell, DC, and Patterson at the four and Ibaka at the five could give you that. I'd be throwing that lineup on the floor a lot in the playoffs.
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Define "a lot". If this lineup plays more than 20% of the minutes, the Raps are likely getting swept. This is the NBA after all, and this is the NBA in it's highest scoring season ever. This lineup is a trainwreck offensively, even if it's really good defensively. Holding teams to 20 a quarter is nice, but meaningless when you can only muster 16 points yourself. Like it or not, they need DeMar's offense out there. Harden and Isaiah Thomas are even worse defensive sieves than DeMar, but they aren't going anywhere. If you want to mitigate the defensive issues, probably best to manage timeouts well so you can make lots of offense/defense subs late in games.