{"id":118645,"date":"2026-04-22T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/matisse-thybulle-says-defense-is-a-little-bit-of-both-instinct-and-chess\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:32:10","slug":"matisse-thybulle-says-defense-is-a-little-bit-of-both-instinct-and-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/matisse-thybulle-says-defense-is-a-little-bit-of-both-instinct-and-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Matisse Thybulle says defense is \u201ca little bit of both\u201d instinct and chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nMatisse Thybulle described his defense as more than reaction speed, calling it \u201ca little bit of both\u201d instinct and mental preparation. The Portland Trail Blazers wing said years of reading tendencies have shaped how he plays on that end. \u201cI think a lot of it is instinct that you accumulate over years,\u201d Thybulle said in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216764-matisse-thybulle-says-defense-is-a-little-bit-of-both-instinct-and-chess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matisse Thybulle says defense is \u201ca little bit of both\u201d instinct and chess<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/216764-matisse-thybulle-says-defense-is-a-little-bit-of-both-instinct-and-chess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matisse Thybulle described his defense as more than reaction speed, calling it \u201ca little bit of both\u201d instinct and mental preparation. The Portland Trail Blazers wing said years of reading tendencies have shaped how he plays on that end. \u201cI think a lot of it is instinct that you accumulate over years,\u201d Thybulle said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}