Poll: Blake Griffin new team will be:

[PAOBoston]

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[Rondo9]

Yeah even if I wanted him to go to us, I voted for Brooklyn in the poll. It makes too much sense for him to go to a legit contender this year instead of trying to take another team closer to being a contender.

Brooklyn needs defenders more than scorers. I don't think Blake is a good fit for the Nets. Good team foe Blake but not sure about fit for the Nets.

 Let me let you in on a secret. Brooklyn needs nothing to win it all. Great offense beats great Defense. Blake makes is just unfair.

When was the last time there was a championship team that didn't just play average defence, they played bad defence?

Blake might make it unfair if he was actually good at basketball. That is not the case though

I just ... don't believe defense is as important as it once was. Not only that but that defense itself is becoming less and less important with each passing year as the rule changes make it harder to play high quality defense.

I think history here is giving us misleading information as to how the game is played today. We are comparing today's league where defense matters less than ever before to past leagues where defense was King. It is not the same. It is a different league today.

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The interesting part of this is how it effects Brooklyn not on defense but on offense. Their offensive weapons are now harder than ever to slow down. This isn't a case of the 2004 Pistons putting the clamps on them. Nobody can do that in today's league.

Brooklyn has 3 superstar offensive weapons who are 25-30ppg threats, who are among the best shooters in the league at their respective positions, who can also handle the ball and attack the rim, and who also post scoring efficiency numbers of TS% in the 60-65% range.

Add in guys like Joe Harris (another 65% TS% guy and maybe the finest spot up shooter in the league) and DeAndre Jordan (65-70% TS%) as a rim finisher.

Just look at the spacing and high leverage offense that quintet creates. Think of how difficult it is to send a help defender onto anyone without leaving huge gaps on the weakside of the court for one the three superstars to exploit or elite finishing role players.

This is an offense that cannot be stopped.



Yes, their defense is weak and yes that will lead to opponents juicing up their offenses ... but ... they still will have to out-score this Brooklyn team without a hope of being able to slow them down on the other end of the floor.

That is going to be extremely difficult to do.

But with the Heat and Warriors super teams the scary part about them wasn’t just their offense, it was their defense as well. Sure the nets have an elite offense but what remains consistent through the eras is that a champion team usually has a top ten offense and defense. The nets only have one of those things.