Scott Brooks is giving Thunder frontcourt players the option to switch on ball screens.

“Coach said we could read it, and during the switch we just had to guard our man and try and do the best that we could do,” Kendrick Perkins said after Oklahoma City’s 109-103 Game 4 win over the Spurs. “We played better as a team. I thought everybody was tight on the string. Everybody did their job in pick and roll defense. We talked about coverages. Everybody did what they need to do.”

Brooks moved Thabo Sefolosha onto Tony Parker for Game 4, which kept Russell Westbrook from having to fight through multiple screens.

“The coverages, it helps when you have different guys on different players. On defense, you gotta be able to guard pick and rolls,” Brooks said. “I thought Thabo did a good job. (Manu) Ginobili and Parker are the best penetrating decisions-makers in the league.”