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2014/05/13 03:32:56 @NBA.com: News

? Portland's small forward, 6-foot-9 Nicolas Batum, will start tonight's game defending San Antonio's 6-foot-2 point guard, Tony Parker. Batum guarded his French countrymen for much of the second half of Saturday's Game 3. Parker is averaging 26.0 points and 8.3 assists in the series. "The best thing with (defending) Parker is to be persistent," Portland coach Terry Stotts said. "He keeps coming at you. You're going to have to defend two or three pick-and-rolls in one possession. He'll run a pick-and-roll and then a handoff and then another pick-and-roll, and then he's going to dribble around some more. You can't let your guard down."
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