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A keen chess player, Wembanyama says that teams can learn each other 'off by heart' in drawn out series
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00:00I thought the guys did a great job again of just being connected where you're in team defense and there
00:06are times depending on the situation and the spacing and the circumstances where you have to continue to move as
00:13the play unfolds and develops.
00:16And I thought we did a good job of being in, showing the crowd, but then also making appropriate reads
00:21and movements off that. And those guys did a heck of a job, obviously, with their dynamic ability on that
00:27end to lead that, I guess you could say, just in terms of resistance and the physicality and trying to
00:33make them take tough shots without fouling.
00:36I was curious for you in your first playoffs, how much have you enjoyed the game to game adjustments as
00:41a chess player yourself? How would you compare it?
00:44There's definitely similarities as in any strategy game. It's fun. It's very fun. In the playoffs at some point, especially
00:53when a series drags on, everybody knows the other team like almost by heart.
00:59So it's different. I would say the coaches hold a lot of this load of the chess match, you know,
01:09the coaching staff, all the strategy. It's a lot.
01:11They do a lot of film. They work really hard.
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