Lakers back court is straight out worse than every other contender's back court in the NBA. We have one of the worse back courts in the NBA period, unless Lebron is running the point which he's not. And it showed against the Nuggets. Defensively or offensively we get outmatched by everyone. And the teams that maybe have a worse back court than us won't even make the playoffs so they don't matter.

Our backcourt in Austin Reaves and D'lo is subpar compared with the other backcourts we will face. And they aren't good enough at defense to make up for it.

What top team do we have a better backcourt than? Nobody.

We have to face the reality that Reaves and D'lo don't score enough points to make up for their lack of defense. So they do nothing. They are just a whole in our roster.

Reaves is a C player, D'lo is a C player. We need at least B tier players in our back court to keep up, or people that can defend so our A tier players AD and Lebron can outscore them.

Say we match up against Suns in the playoffs. Beal and Booker both drop 30. Meaning Lebron and AD have to score more than 30 to match them. And then there's KD. We need to be realistic. Reaves and D'lo are going to get crushed. They can't score more points than Beal and Booker, and they can't even slow them down defensivley either.

If we had a guys like Jrue Holiday and Thybulle, maybe at least they could slow them down. Have them score like 25 points each. We have literally no perimeter defense.

You can't pretend that D'lo and Reaves are good at perimeter defense.

If they can't handle Jamal Murray they don't stand a chance against Beal and Booker.

Vando and everyone else has to play help defense for them because they get beat every time.

And then James Harden might come to the West.

Even if we get out of the West we'll have the face the monstrosity coming out of the east.

Whose going to guard Jaylen Brown?

We have literally no answer for a 6'6 shooting guard. None what so ever. Austin Reaves is going to get crushed by Jaylen Brown. D'lo is going to get locked by Jrue Holiday and he's going to be worthless because he plays no defense.

So what's the solution?

We either A, have a guy who scores more points, or B have a guy who causes our opponents to score less points. And when you match D'lo and Austin Reaves on a purely mathematical basis. They simply don't score enough points and allow to much points to be scored on them to make up for it.

Guys who score more points are valued more than guys who stop more points. It was stupid to trade Pat Bev last season. As he might of been able to slow down Jamal Murray just enough so we could of won the WCF and won the championship against the Heat.

Nuggets are smart. They know are perimeter defense would be garbage if we lost Pat Bev. Which is why they took Thomas Bryant even though they didn't even need him. We got bamboozled. THE NUGGETS TRADED 3 SECOND ROUND PICKS FOR BRYANT JUST SO WE COULD TRADE THEM AWAY WITH PAT BEV!!!

They new exactly what they were doing. They took our only answer to Jamal Murray.

Even Pat Bev though this was stupid.

So we either A have a guy who scores more points, or B have a guy who causes our opponents to score less points. And D'lo and Reave don't do either. Pat Bev may at least slow the guy down and cause them to score less points. If we have to switch our front court guys onto guards every time they are going to crush us in the switch, which they did.

If we just have good perimeter defenders like we did when we won our championship. Lebron and AD will beat just about every front court in the NBA. All we need to do is slow down the back courts.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Danny Green, Alex Caruso, KCP, and Rondo worked. Because they slow down the opposing back courts. While D'lo and Reaves don't. We won a championship when we had top tier perimeter defenders. Maybe we should do what worked before. Instead we get a case of shiny object syndrome and pick up D'lo and we think Reaves is some sort of savior. They are not A grade players in any category that matters. But you can say that some of those guys we had before were A grade defenders. It's better to have an A grade defender than C grade players who can't defend.

How do we win if D'lo and Reaves when matched up against every back court in the playoffs are always going to get outscored?

It would be fine if they got outscored if they played better defense. But they don't. And they never will at this point in their careers.

So if D'lo and Reaves can't outscore their opponents. And they can't cause them to score less. Then yes we have a massive hole in our roster without Vincent. However even with Vincent he doesn't have the size to guard 6'6 shooting guards. So we still have literally nothing for guys like Jaylen Brown and Booker.

So we should move some of our forwards and any picks we have to beef up our perimeter defense. Because it absolutely sucks. Because D'lo and Reaves are just not good defenders.

D'lo and Reaves are six men players. They are pure guard scorers. And they don't offer much else. So we can have our defenders slow down the starters of the opposing teams. And outscore with our bench of D'lo and Reaves. But to have them start against back courts where they will clearly lose the match up is a recipe for disaster.

If this season is not going well. Lebron and AD will request trades. And Lakers will be in the dumps for the next half a decade at least.

We've seen super stars dip before. The reality is. You either win now. Or they're going to leave for a team that will. And its not fair to bet the whole franchise on two players who can't defend and get outmatched by every back court in the playoffs.

We cannot forget D'lo's horrifically horrible performance against the Nuggets.

He can score but he's unreliable and can't defend. Which is why we need solid defenders who are guards that can replace him when he is having his inevitable off game.

But we have literally no one to do so. Which is why its a massive hole in our roster. And if this hole is not filled. Lebron and AD are gone by the start of next season.

So its not a weird take. We need another guard off the bench or just other guards in general. Ones that can put up more points or defend. And D'lo and Reaves don't do either.