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two good examples just happened this year with boston

so much of the discussion of their nets series was locking down durant and kyrie even when nets still scored really well and very little talk of their scoring against nets weak defense

now with bucks so nuch of the discussion is on bucks defense which played excellently by any standard and relatively little discussion on milwaukee dreadful offense

in a broader sense in the 90's it felt like the nba took the lesson than having the best scorer wins, which of course helps, but few attention was given to bulls defense or rebounding or rockets spacing as reasons

what are other examples?

If the Mavs lose tonight.....

"You can't win with Luka playing the way he does."

As I mentioned in the other thread of yours.

Luka has opponent adjusted averages of 34/9/10 per 75 on +2.7 rTS% the last 3 years in the PS.

The Mavericks have a +7.2 rORTG with Luka on the court.

The offense is good enough.

The Bucks defense was pretty average in the last 4 games of the series (114.3 DRtg). Timelord's injury was somewhat of a blessing in disguise for Boston, they were much better offensively without him and they have enough excellent defenders that him being out didn't hurt them much offensively.

But yeah, obviously the Bucks main issue was their putrid offense.