No one can get locked up in the West. Contained is all you can do with the talent and rules. Team defense and making the other team spend lots of energy on defense will be the key.
For sure more so contain but if we can contain Harden,WestBrook,Patty Mills i like our chances to have a punchers chance to win ball games. Im leaving GSW out of this. Lock down if those guys dont shoot well. We might not have current all-stars but as a team collectively werw gonna scrap . For example if we hold harden/Westbrook to 20 pts. Is George/Paul gonna go off to beat us or get more pts than Ingram/Randle. Probably not.
Good read on how well Brook fits on our squad: https://theringer.com/brook-lopez-los-angeles-lakers-brooklyn-nets-new-beginnings-3a5f5078fe34
If you have seen him play and know how Luke is gonna run the offense with Lonzo, you already know Lopez will be tailor made center for this.
Yeah, forgot the homie who took time a few times to project things. Key is trading Deng by next summer..so were not forced to stretch cause that almost extra 10 million can be making a serious run at a championship assuming we get George and Lebron.