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Tim Legler

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5508 total appearances

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And your offense let them down just as much as their defense.

Yeah, I mean, what is so different is there have been really big guys that have roamed the lane and protected the rim.

I played with one in George Maristown in Washington.

We talk about guys like Manute Ball and Sean Bradley and Ralph Sampson, even, who was pretty mobile.

There's been nothing like this.

A guy that's this long that has this kind of mobility, even to the point

where you talk about, well, take the ball as a driver into his chest.

That's the way to negate a shot blocker.

And that's true to a large extent.

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.