Here’s Phoenix Suns veteran Dillon Brooks on who impacted how he plays defense during his early years in the NBA.
(via Phoenix Suns):
“Mike [Conley Jr.] and Marc [Gasol], but I would say more Marc — Defensive Player of the Year. Mike actually is a scrappy defender because positional, but those are the two guys. Tony Allen, big part when I first came to Memphis. Even though I played against him when he was on New Orleans and he was on his way out of his career; I always seen him around, chopped it up, and learned different things from him on the defensive end. And then from the beginning, [David] Fizdale was the coach at first and he always told me like, ‘You want to play? You got to play defense first.’ And I just really put that as a priority. And then ten games in, I was starting and never looked back.”
