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“He did exactly what we talked about this morning,” Irving said. “He came off every pick-and-roll and put our bigs in some tough positions to guard him in those high pick-and-rolls. He did exactly what we thought he was going to do.
“Usually you just go to a double team or something simple to get the ball out of his hands but we felt pretty comfortable with Marcus [Smart] and Al [Horford] guarding him one on one.