Today ESPN reporter Zach Kram wrote an article to analyze the hidden dangers faced by the Clippers next season, all of which are as follows.
With Bradley Bill and Chris Paul joining this summer and Bogdan Bogdanovic joining last season's trading deadline, in addition to James Harden and Leonard Clippers making drastic adjustments in the outside rotation.
However, the problem is that Leonard is the only player among these veterans who have excellent defense; the others are players who have strong offense and weak defense. Instead, the Clippers' best defenders and wing defenders besides Leonard are Chris Dunn and Derek Jones Jr., but head coach Tyron Lu doesn't want to use the pair at the same time because they will sacrifice the team's offensive space on the court - Jones and Dunn only played together for two minutes in the playoffs.
In this way, the Clippers may face frequent offense and defense trade-offs during the game, as they almost always need to send multiple players with poor defense and cannot solve this problem by having Jones and Dunn on the court at the same time.
New forward John Collins will face tremendous pressure, and he needs to improve his defensive strength to make a reliable contribution to Lou both offense and defense. This problem will not occur at the center position for the time being, with Zubac and Brooke Lopez performing steadily on both offense and defense.
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