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Thiero recovered from early defensive mistakes and was great on the offensive glass.

“I thought his first two defensive possessions he made mistakes and then after that he was awesome. He was great on the offensive glass... I think they blitzed three times in the first half and two of those were against him. He makes the short roll and he gets the lob.”

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Lakers leaned on stack actions against drop coverage and gave players freedom to set them.

“We ran a lot of stack versus their drop and they did a good job of, you know, touching the paint. We told the guys basically of freedom at any time. If you're on the double side, go set a stack screen.”

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Thiero has established a baseline level of effort and energy.

“he's really established that level of effort and energy as like a baseline that, you know, for him to be a high level player in the NBA, he's just going to have to have that.”