To end the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors’ game against the Los Angeles Lakers — the first of a back-to-back road-home gauntlet against the Lakers and the Denver Nuggets — Draymond Green executed a series of defensive maneuvers that may have helped his case as this season’s Defensive Player of the Year, among other defensive gems against the Lakers.
With Austin Reaves handling the ball, the aim was for him to get Quinten Post in the action, with the knowledge that the Warriors were willing to switch everything — including Post — on the ball.