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Also severely underrates the difficulty of playing both good offense and defense lol. Even notable two-way stars like Giannis, Embiid, and Tatum are rarely elite on both ends simultaneously, because it’s really fucking tiring to exert yourself to that extent. We’ve also seen offensive stars like Blake Griffin have late career defensive resurgences as role players, because as it turns out it’s easier to play defense when you don’t have to carry your team on the other end.

Embiid’s scoring drops in the playoffs because he has the most defensive responsibility of any superstar along with AD and he makes the right call every year to focus on defense in the playoffs, which gasses him out too much to maintain his regular season production. All that being said I think guys like Lavine, Mitchell all have more defensive ability than they get to show if scoring weren’t such a huge priority for them.