I am not worried about a small backcourt. Fred can defend up a spot no problem, we switch him onto PFs half the time and he kills himself all year doing it. We would need to find a better way to hide Mitchell but that's true no matter who is beside him at guard.
But we do need as many defensive pieces as possible, which makes it hard to see us winning on Mitchell even with a giant pile of picks, which I'm not 100% sure we'd give up. Still, he's a tremendous offensive talent, I could definitely see it being worthwhile to make the defence work around him. Not sure I buy that he's not a downgrade from Trent, but he is a similar sort of player (avoids being completely disastrous in defensive impact stats due to the activity on the perimeter, deflections, etc, while not actually being nearly as good as they suggest because he's terrible in help and can get blown by), so they at least have experience with how to limit the downside of that sort of guy. And maybe in a different system where defence is more than "hey, Rudy, stop that guy please" he'd show a little more.
But we do need as many defensive pieces as possible, which makes it hard to see us winning on Mitchell even with a giant pile of picks, which I'm not 100% sure we'd give up. Still, he's a tremendous offensive talent, I could definitely see it being worthwhile to make the defence work around him. Not sure I buy that he's not a downgrade from Trent, but he is a similar sort of player (avoids being completely disastrous in defensive impact stats due to the activity on the perimeter, deflections, etc, while not actually being nearly as good as they suggest because he's terrible in help and can get blown by), so they at least have experience with how to limit the downside of that sort of guy. And maybe in a different system where defence is more than "hey, Rudy, stop that guy please" he'd show a little more.
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