On Saturday, the Pacers opened the game against the Phoenix Suns with a defense so unique that it was almost inscrutable. On one side of the floor, Aaron Holiday and Myles Turner switched a guard-to-guard screening action between Chris Paul and Devin Booker while, at the same time, Victor Oladipo and Malcolm Brogdon appeared to be in a zone.
Using context clues from the fourth-quarter, when Doug McDermott and Justin Holiday were shadowing Phoenix’s dynamic back-court duo with Malcolm Brogdon, Domantas Sabonis, and JaKarr Sampson set up in a triangle, it can probably be assumed that the first-quarter oddity was also some form of triangle-and-two.