Patrick Ewing to Retire

[David]

The players Nelson had in Milwaukee were pretty much trained defensively when Nelson got them, Buckner at Indiana and Moncreif by Eddie Sutton, Lanier was on his last leg.

Nelson can emphasize all he wants, but short of firing someone or trading someone, I don't know what he can do. I'm sure he could get someone better defensively for each of his big three and we can all sit around and marvel at the defensive prowess of our new starters but can we win with that?

Nelson brought in an allegely good defensive coach and Donnie is supposed to be good in that area also. At any rate, I think the Mavs internal improvement depends on their defensive improvement.