Andrew Schlecht

And they voted in their coaching staff meeting who was going to guard Donovan Mitchell.

And they voted six to five on that Dort was going to guard Donovan.

And I thought it was very interesting.

I even asked some of the players in the locker room, like, is that the way you would have voted?

And they said, no, no, I would not have voted that way.

Wow.

They would have voted Dort on Harden, which makes more sense.

We've seen a lot of that.

That is how Dort got his career started, was playing for the Thunder, guarding James Harden in the bubble against the Houston Rockets.

Yeah.

And so I probably would have voted that way, too.

He mentioned, you know, a couple of their coaches like that were like the deciding votes in this one.

It was it was a really cool anecdote.

Proves it is absolutely true.

And it's just funny that that's how they decided that.

But I mean, the real kind of answer to that question is like who should guard who is there's not really a bad answer here, guys.

Yeah.

If you have two of the best guard defenders in the league, I think it would have been just fine the other way around.

But I think it is interesting that they had 11 of their coaches vote on who they thought should be the primary defender.

And they matched them minute for minute.