Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show. It's the answer. I am Chris Ryan and on today's episode

Hey

Everybody thanks for listening to another episode of the answer

I'm Chris Ryan today's guests are Roger Bell and Kevin O'Connor and we're talking about one thing

The one thing that I couldn't get out of my mind watching this week was defense

I think it was a huge factor in my appreciation for one of the games of the year

Which was Clippers nets, which is a game I talked about with Roger a lot in the upcoming episode

Because I was fascinated by the

fleeting moments that the net's played defense hard defense against the Clippers and and really made life tough for Paul George and

Coiliner and I was also fascinated by how the Clippers tried and nobly failed ultimately at defending the nets and

defense is something that like

Like I've been watching basketball for most of my life

And I still don't know that I can necessarily explain it to anyone. I don't know that I understand or appreciate and it's been kind of like

This thing that I really wanted out of this season was to

Develop a little bit more of an understanding about what's happening on that side of the ball

Like I can say form a fucking wall like Stan van Gundy. I can scream ice

Like Tom DiBito, but I don't know necessarily that I appreciate it the way I should you know you watch a

Rams game

You can find Aaron Donald on the field and you can decide you can say like that guy did something

Game-changing in this play he burst it through an offensive line

He made sure the run didn't go anywhere on defense is a little harder

You get these fleeting moments where you see a steal you see a guy jump a lane

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