{"id":431922,"date":"2023-03-26T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=431922"},"modified":"2023-03-26T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T18:29:24","slug":"giannis-thinks-double-teaming-against-big-guys-doesnt-work-anymore","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-thinks-double-teaming-against-big-guys-doesnt-work-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis thinks double-teaming against big guys &#8216;doesn&#8217;t work anymore&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks leader Giannis Antetokounmpo explained why he thinks the double-team against big men like Nikola Jokic or Joel Embiid isn\u2019t an effective strategy anymore in the modern game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can still guard them, but I feel like guys like four-five years ago you would double team them and they wouldn\u2019t pass the ball. Now they are willing to pass the ball. Tthey get their teammates in a position to be successful. That\u2019s basically the answer to the test. If you get double-teamed if you can find your teammate for the open shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jokic had 31 points plus nine assists in the Denver Nuggets\u2019 win over the Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks leader Giannis Antetokounmpo explained why he thinks the double-team against big men like Nikola Jokic or Joel Embiid isn\u2019t an effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":431924,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,16726],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17843,17841],"acf":{"announce":"\"Four-five years ago they wouldn't pass the ball, but now they do\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/431922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/431922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431922"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=431922"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=431922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}