Kawhi on why zone is effective against teams: "I mean, with any team, it kind of freezes your offense a little bit and you're not necessarily in your regular actions that you run every game.. It's hard to shoot a contested three in a zone because you feel

Spurs off-ball defense on Shai in the fourth quarter of Game 2

Stephon Castle on the OKC defense I'm trying to play through it it's tough The way they guard how physical they are we don't get that same luxury to play as physical on the other end

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

Dray rips Cavs defensive effort Guys don't want the challenge to fight through screens and switch every fucking time Ain't Harden's job to guard Brunson but for some of the guys switching off it is their job Nobody's doing that to Steph because we weren't gonna allow it

Zach Lowe on Sam Presti defending SGA by blaming social media What social media How about the coaches of half the NBA teams Hes trying to make it sound like its just these lunatics on SM and poor Shai has all these people attacking him Its people in the league head coaches on the record

Ben Golliver Spurs DeAaron Fox on attempting the layup late rather than running the clock I just thought Id be able to outrun Knicks OG Anunoby Thats it