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今年夏天，快船队引进了布拉德利·比尔和克里斯·保罗，再加上上赛季交易截止日签下的博格丹·博格达诺维奇，球队在詹姆斯·哈登和科怀·伦纳德之外，几乎彻底重组了外线轮换阵容。问题在于，目前这些老将中，只有伦纳德仍是具备正向影响力的防守者；其余球员几乎都是纯粹以进攻为主的贡献者。

与此相对的是，快船队在伦纳德身边防守表现最好的后场和侧翼球员，反而是留队的克里斯·邓恩和小德里克·琼斯。但主教练泰伦·卢并不愿意让这两人同时在场，因为他们的外线投篮威胁会严重压缩球队的进攻空间——去年季后赛期间，琼斯和邓恩合计仅一同出战了两分钟。

其结果是，快船队在比赛中可能频繁陷入进攻与防守之间的两难抉择：他们几乎始终要同时安排多名防守薄弱的球员上场，而一旦试图通过同时启用邓恩和琼斯来弥补防守短板，又会严重牺牲进攻流畅性和空间平衡。

因此，新加盟的大前锋约翰·科林斯将面临巨大压力——他必须大幅提升自己的防守积极性和投入度，才能为泰伦·卢提供另一位可靠的攻防兼备的外线选择。（内线中锋位置则相对无忧，伊维察·祖巴茨和布鲁克·洛佩兹在攻防两端都表现稳健。）

原文

With the additions of Bradley Beal and Chris Paul this summer, plus Bogdan Bogdanovic at last season's trade deadline, the Clippers have largely overhauled their perimeter rotation beyond James Harden and Kawhi Leonard. The problem is that Leonard is the only one of those veterans who's a plus defender at this point; the rest are all extremely offense-first contributors.

Conversely, the Clippers' best guard and wing defenders next to Leonard are incumbents Kris Dunn and Derrick Jones Jr., but coach Tyronn Lue doesn't want to play that duo together because of how they compromise LA's offensive spacing -- Jones and Dunn shared the court for only two total minutes in the playoffs last spring.

The result is that the Clippers could face too many offense-vs.-defense tradeoffs throughout the course of games, as they'll play multiple poor defenders almost all the time while being unable to fix that problem without tilting too far in the other direction, with Jones and Dunn together. New Clippers power forward John Collins will face a lot of pressure to ramp up his defensive energy, which would give Lue another reliable two-way player on the perimeter. (This won't be an issue at the center position, as Ivica Zubac and Brook Lopez are solid on both ends.)