Timberwolves guard Josh Okogie is in his third NBA season, and to explain how he has improved at defending players like Phoenix's Devin Booker, whom Okogie guarded effectively in two games last week, Okogie deployed a timely metaphor.
"It's kind of like the vaccine, you know what I'm saying? You put the dead cells into you, and then your body learns how to fight them, and then if it sees them again, it gets better at fighting them," Okogie said. "So it's like the same thing with the NBA. As you see these players more and more, I don't want to say it gets easier — because at the end of the day, great scorers are going to be great scorers — but you kind of learn their tendencies.