Asked Jaylen Clark about sharing the floor with Jaden McDaniels and how his presence allows McDaniels to play off-ball on defense.
"First, he's a great rim protector. And then also, he gets to conserve his energy. Like even in the Denver series, I was telling him, go guard somebody else and just go score, I'll hold it down on this end... I always tell him that soon as I check in, I'll go get whoever and you go ahead and go score this ball."
Rudy Gobert was asked what went into him stopping Nikola Jokic in isolation three or four times at the end of the game.
"I was lucky. A top 3 defender can not do that. So I was lucky."
Now check out this example involving noted NON-flopper Anthony Edwards.
An even more egregious example — flagrant, perhaps?? — of crowding a shooter’s feet…
But you only get the call if you hit the deck and act like your leg snapped in two…