Giannis Antetokounmpo Is Ready For The Suns To Deploy The “Giannis Wall” In Game 4

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo dominated the Phoenix Suns in the must win Game 3 of the NBA Finals. And he’s hoping to do more of the same for his team if they’re going to have any chance of evening the series at two game apiece on Wednesday night.

However, many are expecting the Suns to use the “Giannis wall” in Game 4, where they’d essentially take away any opportunity that Antetokounmpo would have to get all the way to the rim.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo reflected on how he has dealt with the wall in the past.

“The first time I saw the wall was probably two years ago,” Giannis Antetokounmpo said after Tuesday’s practice via ESPN. “But I was always capable of passing before that. It’s something that I always liked to do. I had coaches and people throughout my career that helped me with finding the right guy, finding the right pass, making the right play. But once I started seeing the wall, two years ago, now it’s almost, it’s about trust. And it’s kind of hard, because you want to be effective, you want to get downhill, you want to do everything.

“And you take it personal, also. There’s a team that’s building the wall of three people and two guys behind and trying to stop you. Now you have to not take it personal and make the right play, find the right guy. I feel like I did that better since two years ago. … But I was always a capable passer before the wall was created. [It] is funny that there’s a defense out there called the Giannis Wall. It’s funny to me, you know?”

With Giannis Antetokounmpo admitting that the “Giannis wall” takes its toll on him, he also has been trying to take it as a compliment that teams are changing their entire defensive schemes in order to stop him.

“You have to take it as a compliment,” Antetokounmpo said of defenses designed specifically to trying to slow him. “You always have to find the fun factor in everything. In that, in the free throw, ‘1, 2, 3, 4’ [when opposing fans are counting how long he takes to shoot], whatever.

“You always got to find the fun factor. So, yeah, it is a compliment that there’s got to be three people in front stopping me from getting in the paint and building that wall.”

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