Pelicans had Davis and an all-defensive first team guard in Jrue anchoring their defense... still never finished higher than bottom 10 in defense all season long, bottom 5 even for extended periods of time. And our young guys aside from Randle at least TRIED on defense even if they weren't good... AD now has to deal with 2 separate sieves who don't even pretend to care about defending in Kuzma and Bron. Their top target in free agency Kemba is also a negative defender, same deal with Kyrie if he decides he wants to go to LA.
Face it breh, if Jimmy or Kawhi ain't walking through that door in July then Lakers gonna be swiss cheese on defense. AD might be able to guard 1-5 but he can't guard them all at the same time