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Packing the Paint: The NBA's New Aggressive Defensive Strategy
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Packing the Paint: The NBA's New Aggressive Defensive Strategy

Basketball Intelligence
Apr 14, 2013
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From Zach Lowe at Grantland.com:  "How the NBA's aggressive new defensive strategy — packing the paint — has forced coaches to reimagine scoring. It's on almost every locker-room whiteboard, and it's shorthand slang among NBA players and coaches. But one of the wonkiest phrases in the league has yet to penetrate public discourse about the NBA: "to 2.9."…

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