“I think it’s our hope of being special,” Stevens said when asked about his team’s emerging defensive identity. “And maybe that comes in the next three or four months, maybe it takes longer to get there. “But I think the baseline, the identity of a team — the reality is, if you truly want to measure a team and how it functions together, just watch them guard together, watch them talk, watch them cover for each other, see how much they care on that end, see how much effort they’re giving for each other, let alone individually. And that can tell you the story of what a team feels like.