Hoops Lab: How Good Is Kawhi Leonard’s Defense?

How does Leonard's defense effect the Spurs team defense?
Hoops Lab: How Good Is Kawhi Leonard’s Defense?

TYT Sports asked Andre Snellings, Doctorate of Basketball Studies, to dive deeper into the "Kawhi Leonard is so good at defense he makes the Spurs bad at defense because he is so good at defense" debate. Snellings uses impact stats, and comparisons to other wings in the league, to make a case in regards to Leonard's supreme defensive ability.


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TYT Sports asked Andre Snellings, Doctorate of Basketball Studies, to dive deeper into the "Kawhi Leonard is so good at defense he makes the Spurs bad at defense because he is so good at defense" debate. Snellings uses impact stats, and comparisons to other wings in the league, to make a case in regards to Leonard's supreme defensive ability.


Keeping up with the Professor

Follow Andre on Twitter @ProfessorDrz. Catch Andre on the radio on RotoWire Fantasy Sports Today with Chris Liss and Jeff Erickson on XM 87, Sirius 210 on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Plus, during the season, Andre posts DFS articles just about every day on RotoWire.com. Andre also co-hosts the RotoWire Fantasy Basketball Podcast. Visit Andre's blog at hoopslab.rotowire.com.

PLEASE know that all our video and radio clip postings are IN ADDITION to the already scheduled article publications. We are NOT posting videos or radio clips as a substitute for articles. These clips are merely additional content, following our belief that "more is more". We want to get our beloved subscribers as much content as possible.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andre' Snellings is a Neural Engineer by day, and RotoWire's senior basketball columnist by night. He's a two-time winner of the Fantasy Basketball Writer of the Year award from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association.
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