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I think the biggest difference in this tournament compared to what Ive seen before from Lauri is his passing lane awareness and use of hands on defense is so much inproved.

Consider this:
He has 3 games with 4 steals (including last game vs Serbia).

In his entire NBA career he has the same amount of 4+ steal games. In his All-star season with us he didnt have a single 4+ steal game and only 3 games with 3 steals (in this tourney he has 3+ in 4 of 6 games).
 
Also cannot emphasize enough how much Jokic coasting on perimeter defense helped Finland score as high as they did.

They hunted him and shot over him all game long, including the two clutch 3s by Valtonen which were isolation plays, not catch and shoots.
 
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