As the last bit of summer gives way to fall, I’m dying for basketball to start again. Since the season doesn’t kick off until October, I spent some time watching the last handful of games from the end of the last season, and one play in particular caught my eye as being the kind of thing that could be the hallmark of this year’s team.
It was a defensive stand from the end of a must-win game against the Thunder on March 29th. Dejounte Murray’s defense on Russell Westbrook was excellent the entire game, as detailed by Tom Piccolo, but that’s not all that’s going on in this possession.