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How to Play Defense

Jeff Van Gundy explains in a cool feature for the Play website. Given that defense is half of basketball, there’s shockingly little discussion of it in the sports media. Everyone knows that Boston has put together a great defense this year, but you don’t hear much about what makes it so great except for vague allusions to Kevin Garnett’s “intensity.” I’m sure he’s intense, but there’s more to it than that.

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