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#72: Great defenses without great defenders

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Do They Qualify as a Team That Doesn't Have a Big Interior Presence?

They are the first team, and maybe one of the only teams ever to achieve this sort of incredible height on defense without a clear shot blocking big man anchoring the defense in the middle. John sally, off the bench, was their leading shop locker, with ha three % block percentage. And they had other bigs that were all around kind of two% which is the lower end of what i'm looking for here. But it's not a team completely void of the ability to block a shot at the rim. They're a team that kind of doesn't really have a classic shop locker, yet they are able to achieve this height,. but rim, rim protection and paint presence in

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