The Spurs’ defense was bad 2018-19, but it has been cripplingly bad so far this year. The little bit of relevant off-season shuffling the team did - welcoming back Dejounte Murray and, in essence, swapping Davis Bertans for Trey Lyles and DeMarre Carroll - has not helped in that regard. The reasons are myriad, but the most important issue, one J.R. Wilco and I discussed on last week’s episode of Superfluous Poppycock, is the inability of one of the team’s best players to defend on every play.
A detailed look at DeMar DeRozan’s poor defense
