I disagree, and we shouldn't rank defenders as either garbage or great and/or throw out role and resposibility in the process. Buddy by all accounts when you watch him was actually not bad defensively in certain areas. The team scheme was terrible all the way around however as evidenced by the fact that most of the better net rating 5 man units defensively last year had Buddy in them but none were that good. The problem is the Kings lack and did lack fundamental aspects of what it typically takes to be decent defensively in a league so based on switch defense and wing size. Paul doesn't guard some of the players Buddy was forced to last year and no coach would put him in that position routinely. Buddy was often used as a defacto SF defensively.
