if you're really saying that damp and diop were better defenders than draymond, or that the mavericks had anywhere near as good of a defensive scheme as the warriors, you're nuts
sure draymond is shorter, but the warriors defensive scheme does such a phenomenal job of overcoming his size and making ball movement difficult, and draymond does a very good job of using his hands and strength to bother post-up players until the help defense does their job. looney does a solid job of making people work as well, to buy time for the help. the warriors have maybe the best help defense schemes ive ever seen, its incredible how well they study teams, their tendencies, and adjust so quickly to counter adjustments.
not saying the warriors would win such a series, but just that when people look at everything in terms of individual matchups, thats a very narrowminded way to view it. id venture to say that if the warriors wanted to drastically reduce duncans stats, they absolutely could. the thing that made the spurs great was they had a great coach and great cast of players that could step in when one player was being targeted heavily. in that series against dallas, the mavs were mostly focused on limiting parker, and did so very well, but as a result they still nearly lost the series because guys like timmy and manu took great advantage of the extra attention given to tony.