One Fatal Flaw for Each NBA Team Next Season

No NBA team is perfect, it's just too difficult to create a team that you can't break down and find a flaw eventually, especially with the salary cap keeping teams from getting too good these days.

Heck, even the 1996 Chicago Bulls had a center who was too slow and too skinny, but they still managed to win themselves 72 games.

The fact is that good teams are able to overcome their flaws, great teams will be able to mask them completely when need be.

Take a look at the Miami Heat this year. They got almost no scoring from their centers, their point guard isn't a good ball distributor and they have a coach who can't diagram an inbounds play to save his life, but they're sitting at home now as NBA Champions.

It's not bad to be flawed, but it's bad to have glaring flaws. So to help teams throughout the rest of the free agency period I figured I'd go around and point out some flaws for each team.

Atlanta Hawks: Level-Headedness

The Atlanta Hawks have had an interesting offseason, and who really knows how it's going to turn out for them once the season starts, but it seems that they still have one main problem with their team. The guy who is supposed to be the leader of the team isn't extremely level-headed.

Josh Smith needs to lead by example, and after seeing how badly he wants out of Atlanta over the past few weeks, that seems rather unlikely.

Boston Celtics: Questionable Youth

The Boston Celtics have two very good young players in Rajon Rondo and Avery Bradley, beyond that there are quite a few questions surrounding their young guys.

Between JaJuan Johnson, E'Twan Moore, Greg Stiemsma and now Jared Sullinger and Fab Melo, they've got a lot of players who do one or two things well, but don't play well enough to come in and inject some youth into the lineup while giving the old dudes a breather.

Brooklyn Nets: Beyond the Top Five

After Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez, Gerald Wallace and MarShon Brooks, the Brooklyn Nets only player under contract at this point is Reggie Evans.

Evans is a great addition to a contender, but having him as your sixth-best player isn't going to work out very well.

What is going to really show what the Nets do this year is who they are able to fill their team out with after those top five guys.

Charlotte Bobcats: They're the Charlotte Bobcats

Let's be honest, there's a terrible culture of losing surrounding the Charlotte Bobcats. After their best season in team history a few years back they were too far gone to do anything else, so they decided to blow the team up.

At this point they have some nice young pieces, but the fact that their Charloteness is still hanging around is going to be the downfall during the course of this season.

Chicago Bulls: Health

Fine, it's not really the rest of the team's health we're sitting here worrying about, it's Derrick Rose's and only Derrick Rose's.

Any other player could go out and get injured and we would assume that the Bulls would get over it, but with Rose recovering from knee surgery with no exact timetable for a return, the only thing that the Bulls success in the playoffs is hinging on right now is how well Rose recovers and how well he's able to slip into the rotation.

Cleveland Cavaliers: Green Guys

The Cleveland Cavaliers have a great young roster loaded with talent, but all of that talent is taking the shape of an unworked ball of clay.

Tristan Thompson is still clueless on offense at times, Tyler Zeller and Dion Waiters have a bit of a way to go before they become legit NBA players and (hopefully for Cavs fans) Kyrie Irving has only scratched the surface of his potential.

Youth is good, but too much of it can be dangerous for a team looking to succeed. 

Dallas Mavericks: Motivation

As of right now the Dallas Mavericks have hung onto Dirk Nowitzki, Ian Mahinmi, Shawn Marion, Brenden Haywood, Vince Carter, Roddy Beaubois and Dominique Jones from last season. That's not exactly a recipe for success.

One of three things seem to be at play right now with the Mavericks. Either Dirk Nowitzki is fine after winning his title and he feels that he can retire happy, he's down in the dumps after half his teammates left via free agency and the team whiffed on Deron Williams or he's motivated to shove the team in everyone's faces.

It just doesn't seem like this team has anywhere near the talent necessary to win many games.

Denver Nuggets: Defense

The Denver Nuggets had one of the most fun teams in the NBA last season, but fun doesn't usually translate to defense.

In fact, Denver's defense allowed 101.2 points per game last season, the second-most in the NBA.

What's going to hinge on whether they'll be able to play better defense or not is whether JaVale McGee can step in and become the help defender and enforcer that he can be more often.

Detroit Pistons: Go-to Guy

The Detroit Pistons have been a middling team for a handful of years now, and because of that they were never really able to acquire that go-to guy via the NBA Draft.

It's not really easy to tell who their team is centered around; Tayshaun Prince is a bit too old, Greg Monroe, Rodney Stuckey and Brandon Knight are inefficient for their positions and everyone else is either too young or not good enough.

This team needs to develop a real centerpiece in order to make some progress.

Golden State Warriors: Direction of the Team

We know that the Golden State Warriors are trying to become more of a defensive team, but are they put together correctly to do that?

As of right now should Harrison Barnes work his way into the starting lineup he's already the second-best defender in the starting five, and with questions surrounding Andrew Bogut's health, he could end up being the best defender.

The team has a good mentality, they just might not have the roster to follow through with it.

Houston Rockets: What's Going On?

Seriously, what are the Houston Rockets even doing at this point? Houston has traded away three-fifths of their starting lineup from last year with Chase Budinger on the Timberwolves, Samuel Dalembert on the Bucks and Kyle Lowry on the Raptors.

Aside from that, they let their backup point guard walk, stacked the team with pieces to a trade rather than players for the future and are now openly shopping Luis Scola. This team is too confusing.

Indiana Pacers: Big Man Depth

The Indiana Pacers have an interesting situation on their hands with the Portland Trail Blazers doing everything they can to acquire Roy Hibbert.

What would be left of the Pacers backcourt should they let Hibbert walk would be a shamble of guys too young and too old to really make an impact--oh, and maybe Chris Kaman.

Los Angeles Clippers: Coaching

The Los Angeles Clippers have a coach on the floor in Chris Paul, but he seems to be the smartest guy running anything at this point with the Clippers.

Donald Sterling thought it wise to bring back Vinny Del Negro, a guy who is universally assumed to be the only coach in the NBA who isn't capable of drawing up an inbounds play to save his life, and in about six months he'll wonder why is young team that doesn't listen to Del Negro is having troubles.

Los Angeles Lakers: Depth

The Los Angeles Lakers have a great starting five at this point, and that's even if Metta Worle Peace starts for them.

However, with their bench populated by guys like Steve Blake, Matt Barnes and Devin Ebanks near the top end, it's going to be tough to let those starters spend much time on the bench.

Memphis Grizzlies: Shot Distribution

The Memphis Grizzlies have a big three of their own, unfortunately two of those big three are best when working their respective methodical games, Rudy Gay in isolation, Zach Randolph in the low post.

Combine that with a point guard who would probably excel more with a group of guys who run in the flow of an offense and you've officially got a shot-distribution problem.

At least Marc Gasol seems like he'd be happy shooting the ball 20 times a game or two times a game.

Miami Heat: Big Man Depth

The Miami Heat definitely did some damage by adding Ray Allen to their lineup, but they still don't have any serviceable big men on their team aside from Udonis Haslem.

If they can somehow work out a sign-and-trade deal with the Houston Rockets for Marcus Camby then they'll have a good upgrade over Joel Anthony, it's just hard to see many teams wanting to trade with the defending NBA Champions, especially with the few assets they have to trade at the moment.

Milwaukee Bucks: Getting to the Line

The Milwaukee Bucks, not hampered by the presence of a certain Australian big man, played the third-fastest game last season, attempted the second-most shots in the NBA but only got to the line better than a third of the league.

Milwaukee needs to better attack the basket and draw fouls, because with the pace they play at they should easily be able to get to the line a few hundred more times a year.

Minnesota Timberwolves: Defensive Cohesiveness

The Minnesota Timberwolves are fast becoming a team to be afraid of in the Western Conference, especially if Brandon Roy should prove himself healthy enough to make an impact.

However, they're going to continue to have problems on defense should they struggle to work as a unit going forward.

They've never been a good defensive team in the Kevin Love Era, but they have good players and a few good defenders who should be able to bring them together, otherwise they're just another team looking to sneak into the playoffs.

New Orleans Hornets: Youth

The New Orleans Hornets could very well be the best young team in the NBA (thanks to David Stern's rescinded trade) but that's a curse as much as it is a blessing.

The most experienced player on the Hornets (Jarrett Jack) has been in the NBA for just six seasons, and that amount of inexperience will kill even the most talented of young teams.

They'll be great down the road, but this season the youth will be their dowfall.

New York Knicks: Ball Security

The New York Knicks, despite having an exciting young point guard and the best isolation offensive player in the NBA, have a huge problem with keeping the ball in their own hands.

Only one team had more turnovers for the Knicks last season, and the way that momentum swings games in the NBA, turnovers are equally capable of killing teams as they are of giving a team a victory.

Ball security should be item number one on the Knicks list of things to work on in camp this offseason.

Oklahoma City Thunder: Post Scoring

The Oklahoma City Thunder had the opportunity to win an NBA Title this year, only the Miami Heat made the necessary adjustments and the Thunder did not.

The biggest problem the Thunder had was the fact that they were incapable of scoring in the post with their big men, settling instead for jumpers and not attacking Miami's biggest weakness.

Should Serge Ibaka learn to play a bigger man's game, or someone else go down into the post a bit more, it would be an improvement to an already very good team.

Sacramento Kings: Maturity

The Sacramento Kings are going to have a difficult time, not just because of the youth that's populating their team, but the immaturity as well.

For DeMarcus Cousins, the problems are obvious, but there are more immature players than just Cousins on the Kings, just immature in a different way.

Tyreke Evans and Marcus Thornton both shoot quite a few wild shots and their team is populated with guys who are green defensively.