Pelatih San Antonio Spurs, Mike Brown, mengakui bahwa Brunson merupakan pusat perhatian utama dari strategi pertahanan timnya, sebuah pengalaman yang pernah ia hadapi saat mengawal lini pertahanan Golden State Warriors di Final Wilayah Barat 2022.

"As a defensive coordinator, this is just me, going into that series, my concern wasn't Luka [Doncic], my concern was Jalen," ujar Brown.

"We put Draymond Green on Jalen. That's how concerned we were.

Because we needed a bigger, stronger, tougher guy to try to do it or to try to slow him down at that time."

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