The motion was unmistakable. The players on the court hadn’t even finished shaking hands when Patrick Beverly found Jae Crowder, the Clippers guard swinging an imaginary ball up and under an imaginary arm in an exaggerated move that left no doubt what was being discussed between two fierce competitors.
Beverly, the former Houston Rocket, was offering up his thoughts on how to defend James Harden.
“I’m sure some Houston Rockets may watch this,” Crowder said later during a TV interview. “So I won’t say too much. … It was just a game plan he thought worked.”
Like everyone else’s, though, Beverly’s plan for stopping Harden is a theory.