Kyle Lowry compares ‘unbelievable’ Kawhi Leonard performance to vintage Yao Ming Globe_Sports
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“He was like 12 for 12, didn’t miss a shot, it was crazy, it was unbelievable. It was just an easy game,” Lowry said.Leonard had that kind of night, scoring a career playoff high 45 points in Toronto’s 108-95 win over Philadelphia. He demoralized Sixers’ defenders with his clinical precision and creativity, spinning around Jimmy Butler, bouncing off Ben Simmons, knocking down threes.“But I think yesterday wasn’t easy for Kawhi, it’s not easy,” Lowry corrected.
“You try to just make sure you help him as much as you possibly can,” he said. “If that’s screening the right way, if that’s rolling, if that’s calling a play for him, if that’s helping him on defence and helping him save some energy, you try to help him and help the team no matter what in any type of situation, whatever you can do, you gotta get out and take his man for a second or screen his man or back cut just to get him open. . . . You don’t help him by just standing and watching.
“It’s a very intelligent, very experienced group,” the coach said. “You see it not only in the game but you see it on days like today. The film session . . . it’s not us just telling them, it’s us working together and there’s a lot of good ideas. Our coaching staff’s ears are open, there’s an exchange of ideas because these guys have been through hundreds of games and lots of playoff runs and all those kinds of things.
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