Adam Spinella
This question is right in my wheelhouse. For years, I’ve advocated for putting a smaller guy on Giannis to undercut his dribble, then if he gets separation start to run at him with a bigger, longer body. So the idea we’d use is to steal the strategy from the Toronto Raptors just a few years ago called “blocks and elbows”. Essentially, we’d advocate for putting Marcus Smart, or Payton Pritchard even, on Giannis and then stationing the other four defenders on the blocks and elbows — it’s not a “box and one” defense, but it loads up aggressively in help to discourage Giannis drives and turn him into a passer:
Trevor Hass
Grayson Allen’s on the Bucks, so no one will be tripping Giannis.