“Have you seen that before, Mike? Have you seen it before?”
The question from Thunder TV play-by-play announcer Chris Fisher to color analyst Michael Cage was rhetorical. As Lakers guard Alex Caruso tried to shade Chris Paul to the sideline, he exposed his left arm and Paul took advantage.
Whistle. Foul. Another defender became Paul’s prey.
“And there is the CP swing,” Fisher said.
Oh wait, that was from a different game.
“All Lillard could do was throw his arms up.”
Whoops. Different call. Different game.
“A lot of really good offensive players, when they’re being guarded closely or tightly, it’s a way for them to create space,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said of Paul’s rip-through move – when the future Hall of Famer swings his arms through the path of the defender’s arms to draw a foul.
“He’s just been really canny at doing that. Really what it does is it opens up space for them…
