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Outplayed him head to head outplayed him against the same Spurs teams outplayed him against the same Warriors teams simply just a better player in the regular season and playoffs

Stephon Castle in Game One: 11 Turnovers Stephon Castle in Game Two: 9 Turnovers Improving every night 🔥

When he has the ball nearly every possession and is being forced to make plays after bringing it up because no one else can get inside the defense — it is taxing. Especially against OKC. That’s not even bringing up the fact that he also defends SGA or whoever the primary is for 30+ minutes — on top of having to create offense nearly every possession — it’s beyond exhausting. Name me one player in the NBA that carries that much weight on both ends, You can’t. When Steph has some help and relief of on ball duties and gets the same on ball primary reps in moderation ( even distributed between him/Fox/Harper) — his energy is conserved and exerted more efficiently and the turnovers are significantly less. No player in the playoffs is being asked to do what Steph is doing. He’s everywhere on both ends. Outside of the TOs he delivered in many ways. The evenly distributed primary reps between the 3 is what made it all work this year and helped win 62 games — Fox Steph and Harper all made their primary reps more efficient for each other.

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🧵Ant & Luka are better than SGA in the offs because their tools are significantly more scheme-proof, even if they’re less personnel-proof. Ant is a 99th percentile off-ball scoring talent in NBA history and Luka is one of the best decision-making talents we’ve seen,