Unveiled: The Shocking NBA Teams Set to Defy Expectations This Season!
Listen to this list of players: Anthony Davis, Dereck Lively II, Daniel Gafford, PJ Washington, Cooper Flagg, Naji Marshall, Max Christie, Caleb Martin and Klay Thompson. Two of those players (Davis and Lively) finished in the top 30 in defensive DRIP (D-DRIP), and Flagg (one of the best prospects of the last decade) finished fourth in college basketball last year in D-VAPR.
Sounds like a lock for a top-10 defense, right?
Well, our model currently expects them to be a bottom-10 unit (21st in D-TRACR). Even if the Mavericks crumble offensively without Irving, the defense alone should be enough to keep them from being a bottom-feeder in the Western Conference.



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