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Message: [QUOTE="007, post: 5217167, member: 393"] I hear you on being more aggressive on defense. But I would add that I saw more help rotations and hedging last night than I saw in any game all of last year. The defense has a long way to go yet - especially with respect to rebounding and defending dribble penetration - but the early improvements are encouraging. As for Tony Bennett's defense, it was far from "super simple." All 4 off ball defenders have specific help positioning and rotations that are interdependent and varying depending on where the ball is on the court and the off ball action (screeners, cutters, post position, movement to or away from the ball, fronting, ball denial). If anything, all 5 players were so precise in their execution of those concepts that it made it look simple. [/QUOTE]