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#218: The best defenders of the last 15 years | Big Men

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The Importance of Defensive Flexibility in the NBA

It's not fair to equate team defense to a specific defender, especially someone like the box who's just like slanted towards defense as opposed to how the jazz were built all those years with go bear. Yannes is up near the leaders there and go bear never really gets a signal like that. Brooke Lopez is part of those bucks teams. They also had a third great defender every time, either in Eric Bledso or your favorite Drew Holliday,. defensive roster, good defensive coaching. It sounds like it's going to just kick some teeth in and take names and dominate in the playoffs. Do I expect that to not be a great playoff defense? No.

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