They are both smart head coaches with creative thinkers on their staffs and they take great joy in the mind games. “Teams are going to take away your first option and probably your second option. Even in the cauldron of a playoff game, with the speed and intensity and noise and importance of every possession, being able to react rather than think is a difference-maker. Antetokounmpo, in just his fourth year and second playoff appearance, made a handful of smart, second-nature moves at the end of Game 2 that almost allowed the Bucks to steal a second game in Toronto. “It’s always like chess … it’s still a game at the end of the day that’s on you, to figure out the options you can attack.”

Source: thestar April 20, 2017 21:56 UTC