Back in January of 2012 when Avery Bradley’s trademark pit bull defense was still in its early stages, Jameer Nelson supposedly asked AB to ease up on him. Bradley simply laughed at him and went at him even harder. That gave way to a nightmare of a game for Nelson, which likely prompted him to see visions of AB in his sleep. Fast forward to last night’s dominating 120-105 win over Orlando at the Garden, AB decided to re-introduce himself to Jameer… just in case he had forgotten. Just about mid-way through the third quarter, Jordan Crawford found a baseline-cutting AB for an easy lay-up. AB then immediately did what he does best: found the ball handler and hounded him into submission. It was again Jameer who re-lived the AB nightmare, coughing up the ball, staying back to complain for a foul and watching the C’s streak to a dunk. Then about a minute later, on an AB drive, Jameer gets his retaliation by whacking Bradley in the head out of pure frustration. Hey, anyone who has played PG at any level has been there before. There’s a tenacious defender that just plays you clean and strips the ball and it’s annoying as hell. Sure, you want to just toss him to the ground. But it’s always more fun when that annoying pest of a defender is on YOUR side. Check it out:
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