Iko Houstons early version of their small ball group Tate Thompson Smith and both Greens has an impressive 864 defensive rating per Second Spectrum Got better as the game went Udoka said of the switching And to your point I think the third and fourth we really did it well

Kenny Atkinson James Harden is a good isolation defender I was a little more upset with our back line defense Everybody's putting it on James Sure some of it was him Sometimes micro experiences get exaggerated

Kenny Atkinson on the Cleveland Cavaliers' adjustments The tactical adjustment we made was avoiding Ausar Thompson We were just like if he's near the ball throw it to someone else

Oso Ighodaro on what he learned from playing the Thunder in the first round They were calling out every single one of our plays immediately I went through their playbook and knew pretty much their actions but the level at which they knew our plays was definitely different

Jeff Teague Shoutout to JJ Redick People are taking his blueprint on how to stop SGA and applying it He changed the whole way of guarding OKC This might hurt OKC going forward and their whole trajectory of being a dynasty That way of guarding him may have messed up everything

Thinking Basketball With Wemby on the court the Spurs are holding teams to 17 points below their regular-season efficiency which is better than the '04 Pistons the statistically greatest defense of the last 50 years

Hoop Collective From Stats Williams Pistons were 7 for 7 on drives defended by James Harden including 55 in the second half in Game 2 of the series