You know that feeling when you get a rock in your shoe? Or how about when you can’t find your keys? Or the fly that’s constantly buzzing around you, lands in your ear and you accidentally push it into your ear canal? An annoyance so great that you have no choice to stop what you’re doing and capitulate.
That is Payton Pritchard on defense. Being really freaking annoying is a skill, a talent that can be taught, but some are born with it. Payton was undoubtedly born with it.
But being annoying isn’t enough. If it was, Nick Nurse would be the most successful coach in NBA history.