Principle of Verticality

Do you Elles and Gees remember several years ago This Block For Sale was playing the Splash Brothers and Steven Adams was playing Steph Curry out on the 3-point arc? It seemed the most horrendous mismatch imaginable for the “Thunder”. But it wasn’t. Steven’s space-eating height and width boxed the elf magician in and forced him into a hurried, errant shot. The OKC crowd went nuts. Well, last night in LA-LA Lake-Lake land Anthony Davis Disorder did the same thing to Steph in the last :34 and forced two misses from him. 

There is really something to that Principle of Verticality.