'Causes Too Much Havoc' – Former Atlanta Hawks Star Picks Guarding Kyrie Irving Over Stephen Curry

During a recent episode of his show, “Club 520 Podcast,” Teague revealed that he prefers to guard Irving over Curry.

“They’re both tough covers, but I’d rather guard Kyrie [Irving],” Teague said. “At least you know where Kyrie’s going to be. You going to catch him right at that pass, wherever he’s going to be at in ISO. You look one way, Steph takes off the other. And then you got to catch up. He just causes too much havoc once he moves.

“Steph is constantly moving, hitting through screens,” Teague continued. “You’re scared of him hitting a 3, so you don’t want to go out there, but you’ve got to be locked in for sure.”

The former Atlanta Hawks said Russell Westbrook “normalized” triple-doubles

When it comes to triple-doubles, most fans think about one player, Russell Westbrook. The nine-time All-Star first averaged the historic stat for the entire season during the 2016-17 campaign. This earned him the regular-season MVP. Following that, the explosive guard averaged triple-doubles in the next two seasons and once more during the 2020-21 season when he was with the Washington Wizards.

For Westbrook, collecting triple-doubles has become so commonplace that most fans tend to overlook it. The former Atlanta Hawks guard explained that Westbrook “normalized” achieving the stat line.

“He made that look too normal,” Teague said. “The fact that we just blow past the fact somebody averaged a triple-double for four straight years and they’re a point guard and we like ‘Yeah, like what?'”

“That s**t is crazy, I never even had a triple-double in my life. I didn’t have one triple-double. For somebody who played for 12 years and started for nine of those. I didn’t get close.”

It just showed that Westbrook was a hard worker and unstoppable during his prime.