For 12 NBA seasons, Clippers center Marcin Gortat has been elbowed in the stomach, punched in the groin and pushed in the back as opponents try to fight through and around his screens.
He, in turn, dishes out his own muscle. There is a time and place, he allowed, to set a “dirty … screen and hold somebody on the screen, that’s just how it is. Even players from opposite teams say, ‘Dude, you grabbing on screens,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I do.’ As long as I’m not going to get caught with that then I’m going to continue to do that.