Originally Posted by
N.O.Bronco
I worried about the KD problem before this series and I honestly don't have a good answer. Even if we had Cousins.
Our best hope was that Solo's shooting improved and he got back to last season form defensively. Neither of those things has happened. So now we are in a bind. If you do the Okafor thing you run into that problem the Pels had a couple years ago where teams just load up defenders on Jrue and AD and dare everyone else to beat them.
In a world with Cousins you might try something really unorthodox and put AD on Durant for stretches with both Niko and Cousins. Allowing you to have AD and Niko to get back defensively in transition as Cousins would no doubt struggle to do, and to keep enough rebounding in place to not get killed on the offensive glass without Davis in there.
This team sorely needs a credible wing defender that has enough size and length to not get abused by Durant. As is you are stuck with Niko trying to guard against KD's lateral quickness and dragging our second best rebounder away from the basket, or he gets switched onto anyone else and it either sucks away our rebounding(like in the case of AD) or he can just shoot over them(Moore, Rondo, Jrue).