Los Angeles Lakers forward Montrezl Harrell had the unenviable task of guarding the much bigger Karl-Anthony Towns during their duel with the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday. After the game, Harrell offered an interesting analogy on guarding Towns, as well as other players way bigger than him.
Per Dave McMenamin of ESPN, Harrell says that he doesn't really subscribe to the perception that a bigger player will always have the advantage over small ones.
“I don’t really believe in that smaller stuff, man, because at the end of the day, if you believed in that, the elephant would be the king of the jungle.”
Harrell, who stands 6-foot-8, is considered undersized given that he plays in the paint. Most of the time, he goes toe-to-toe with players like Towns who stands close to seven feet or way above it. While there are times that Harrell's size seems like a liability, he doesn't let it stretch for most of the game. He makes up for it by upping the ante in terms of energy, hustle, and court smarts.
In his duel with Towns, Harrell played just 18 minutes but scored 17 points and snagged six rebounds for the Lakers. Towns, meanwhile played 33 minutes and had 15 points and six rebounds. One can say that Towns is a bit rusty after missing a chunk of games due to the coronavirus. But the past reveals that Towns doesn't have enough strength to battle it out in the paint. Harrell, for his part, continues to show that size doesn't matter.
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