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Here's a pretty typical basketball skills video showing practicing defending a cutter by checking them. It's a common approach to defend a cutter by making sure you impede their progress through the lane (watch especially the first 40 seconds of the video):
Looks a ton like the Haws play on Petrusev, with the difference being Haws was late in covering the cut and had to run at Petrusev, which made it look worse.