Stan Van Gundy
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I mean, the guy for me was probably Gobert because he just shut down the paint.
And we were always a team that wanted to try to attack the paint first and then throw the ball out and shoot threes.
And because of Gobert...
the rest of the team didn't really have to suck in against you.
So it was hard to score at the rim.
And it was also, they could take away you spraying the ball out, but still no comparison to Wimbinyama because Gobert couldn't get out to the
you know, perimeter the way Wimbledon Yama can, I mean, shoot that to watch Wimbledon Yama be in the paint and close out on a guy in block of three.
I mean, it's like, well, what are we doing here?
I mean, he can, he can guard the, the shooting fives, whereas go bear, uh,
You know, we didn't have at that time shooting fives, but Gobert can't.
I mean, you know, you can gain an advantage on them.
You can't do it with Wimbanyama.
And if they have to late in games, Wimbanyama can switch out and guard a guard.
I mean, it's just, I've never seen anything like him.
He's so far from a rim protector.
The other guy that for me,
gave us a lot of trouble and was disruptive was a perimeter guy, was Ron Artest before he became Metta World Peace.
Because especially when I was in Orlando, you know, we ran a lot of stuff through Hito Turkoglu and he was the one guy who could really get into Turkoglu and disrupt him a little bit on his ball handling with his size and strength and length.
He would be the other guy.
I was not at all.