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Defense wins conference championships: the Pistons and Spurs will meet in The Finals--mothering everyone in their paths.(NBA Preview)
At first blush, it might look like Pistons coach Larry Brown and Spurs coach Gregg Popovich are running much the same stuff on defense. They're both lifelong coaches, they have worked together--including this summer when Popovich was an assistant to Brown on the U.S. Olympic team--and both point to North Carolina guru Dean Smith as the inspiration for their teams' styles of play. No wonder the Pistons and the Spurs were the two most dominating defenses in the league last season, each team allowing just 84.3 points per game.
That should not change much this season. Expect the Spurs and Pistons, once again, to be Nos. 1 and 2 in defense--and because they are the ...
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