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How the Spurs’ switch-everything defense doomed them against the Lakers

Coach Gregg Popovich and the Spurs almost pulled off another magic trick on Sunday night against the Lakers. Sure, they came close to earning a victory, but that’s not the impressive part. The impressive part is that they were close in a game where they purposefully and repeatedly put DeMar DeRozan on Anthony Davis.

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is nobody who believes that’s a good matchup for DeMar. If you were counting out which Spurs defenders you’d rather have on Davis, how many would you get to before him?