
#72: Great defenses without great defenders
Thinking Basketball
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A Few Disafy Both - Al Horford and Marcus Morris
The majority of defensive teams have a great interior big, or interior bigs, driving the defense. And maybe it's easier to build a great defence team because bigs tend to have what i've called in the past, high defensive usage. A lot is funnel to them. But you don't need an elete defender in the middle, which is interesting. Out of these hundred and 50 n top 100 and 50 defensive teams, there's a decent chunk that we just looked at that aren't built around a classic protector.
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