Utah are open to trade discussions for Lauri Markkanen

Dago said

You kind of just described the Hawks recently.....top 10 offense, bottom ten defense and it got them nothing.

We have the defense already (and I do think Murray will be much closer to his form in San Antonio than Atlanta between our team philosophy and Herb out there chewing arse on anybody who doesn't hustle on D) and our offense was actually pretty damned good overall except when we needed it in clutch time which is something else Murray will definitely help with

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As you said, we have pretty good defenders already - I am talking about the Pels - Not the Hawks... You need a bit of both.... but you aren't going anywhere without top level offense in the current NBA... You can go pretty far without a top level defense - Pacers and Mavs were 24th and 18th respectively last year in DEF RTG - Both were top 7 in Offense PPG - Pacers were 28th in RPG and Mavs were 21st. Both teams eventually lost - but both made their respective CONF Finals. And the Mavs made the NBA Finals.... I lean way more toward OFF over DEF/REB in today's NBA... Especially during the regular season and pre trade dead line.

The clutch stuff is a mind frame, culture, and team DNA thing... Not sure how you fix that.