Normally when you’re a guard and you get a big switched onto you defensively, that means it’s time to use your speed and agility to create an easy look at the basket.
But when that big happens to be Andrew Wiggins, conventional wisdom no longer makes any sense.
Check out this sequence from Monday night’s contest between the Rockets and the Timberwolves, where Wiggins completely locks up one of the game’s most elite offensive players in James Harden, comes away with the blocked shot, and then runs the floor to get the and-1 dunk in transition.