Thoughts on hustle
"Like sometimes -- sometimes you come across special people and it doesn't matter what you send to them. There's no scheme. There's no nothing that you can do with special people. He's one of them. And he showed it tonight. He put them guys on his shoulders."
A reporter asks: What more could you have done to slow Kevin down, especially in the first half?
PATRICK BEVERLEY: What you think? (Laughter). You played basketball before? What you think? That's an honest question. What you think? You watch a lot of basketball. You work for ESPN. I mean, he's Kevin Durant (KD).
LOU WILLIAMS: I promise we tried.
PATRICK BEVERLEY: We didn't roll over. We didn't just say, come on, man, just give us 50 tonight. Of course not. He's a hell of a player. The shots he took, he made some tough shots. If you were a coach, what would you tell us to do? Thank you.
LOU WILLIAMS: We tried everything. (Laughter). So we tried everything. We had several different coverages for KD.
PATRICK BEVERLEY: It didn't work.
LOU WILLIAMS: Like sometimes -- sometimes you come across special people and it doesn't matter what you send to them. There's no scheme. There's no nothing that you can do with special people. He's one of them. And he showed it tonight. He put them guys on his shoulders.
Even the game he came out, he was, like, I'm Kevin Durant; y'all know who I am. That's like a bold statement to make when you're about to go see some guys that's extremely competitive. And he came out that game and he said, I can really shoot over these guys and he did it. It wasn't lack of effort on our part. He's an all-world professional and he proved himself. He proved exactly who people think he is, who he thinks he is himself and he did it. And you tip your hat off to a guy like that.
PATRICK BEVERLEY: If that answers your question.