Giannis Antetokounmpo is absolutely unguardable.
Sure, it’s not in the way that you’d typically think of a player being unguardable. He’s not, say, drilling 3-pointers in your face like Steph Curry. He’s not crossing you into next week like Kyrie Irving or James Harden.
He’s just physically dominating you like some sort of twisted combination of Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James that just feels like it shouldn’t be possible. And, honestly, defending that might be a bit worse than watching someone hit a stepback 3-pointer on you.
You know there’s absolutely nothing you can do. Here’s a look at what that looked like via his shot chart from Wednesday against the Timberwolves.
He absolutely dominated the paint.
Now here’s what it feels like, via a perfect NSFW description from Anthony Edwards.
WARNING: There is A LOT of NSFW language in this tweet.
Anthony Edwards talks Giannis Antetokounmpo pic.twitter.com/eRITPZyzDR
— jace frederick (@JaceFrederick) October 28, 2021
“With a guy like that, you can’t stress about him scoring. That’s what he’s gonna do. M*********** is 7’2, 280 pounds, like there ain’t nothing you can do about it. Like s***, we put four people on him, m************ still scored the ball…I ain’t never seen nothing like it. You can put four people on him, he might miss it, jump right back up and dunk that b****. I mean, like, it’s nothing you can do about it…I can’t even say we contained him. He still went for 40.”
It’s the last line that really drives it home, though.
“There’s nothing I can say about Giannis, man. He’s unstoppable.”
And that’s what it sounds like to guard Giannis Antetokounmpo.
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