Put a quicker, smaller defender on them, and they’ll use their matching 6-foot-10 heights to back their opponent down and score a close-range bucket. Put a burly, bruising big man on them, and they may decide to step out beyond the arc and sink a three-pointer, or put the ball on the floor and breeze by for a layup.
New Orleans Pelicans power forwards Anthony Davis and Ryan Anderson have often posed a serious dilemma for defenses in their four seasons as teammates, but the tandem has perhaps never been more potent than it was over the weekend.