Tim Legler

That is difficult for them to time it up.

If you can take your shoulder into their chest, it's hard for them to stay in the air.

It's hard for them to time the block as they're backing up and you're taking the action to them.

The difference is Wenbin Yahama is the only guy I've ever seen that can continue to back up almost to the point where you can push him to the other side of the rim with your shoulder as you're driving, and he still can reach out and block a ball on the side of the rim that you're trying to release the basketball.

it's incredible like the difference defensively that he makes in terms of the way you process what's available to you as an offensive player.

So even on the nights when it's not tangible, he doesn't get five, six, seven, eight, he had 12 blocks in a game in the playoffs.

Even those nights he gets two blocks.

it's incalculable the number of times guys have processed how they want to play differently.

So that is the impact, the true impact of what he does defensively.

And then, look, obviously the offense isn't going to look like it did the other night every night.

You know, you can still get into him a little bit.

There's going to be nights he's a little bit off balance, and he's not strong enough to play through some of the things he's going to get.

But on the nights he is defensively,

That's what it looks like.

And now you've got this force that you just don't know what to do because he has the greatest escape, Tony, in traffic, which is the vertical escape.

When there's traffic and physicality in the lane, on the floor, on the perimeter, he has the ultimate solution.

I will escape all of this by going to a place vertically that no one else out here can get to.

And it will still give me an opportunity to play free.

And that's what you saw the other night.

Yeah, and that's when they put everybody on notice that this had arrived sooner than we thought.