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The 10-man rotation, starring overwhelming offenses and disappearing defenses
In today’s edition of The 10-Man Rotation — Ball Don’t Lie’s long-running regular look around the league and the web that covers it, now a weekly newsletter featuring original content you can’t get anywhere else and highlights from the week that was at BDL (subscribe here!) — Ben Rohrbach takes a look at an era of unprecedented offensive efficiency, with so many teams spreading it out and bombing away, and finds himself wishing for just a little more grit, grime and variation.
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From “Where has all the defense gone?”:
Not only has the pace-and-space era stretched defenses so thin, but the Tony Allens, Dennis Rodmans and Ben Wallaces of the world are giving way to the Nick Youngs, Ryan Andersons and Channing Fryes. (Maybe not to that degree — today’s teams wouldn’t turn away a First Team All-Defense player — but you get the point.) Personally, I like the crazy defensive-minded guys. They’re s***-stirrers, and they’re just as fun, if not more, than the dude who jacks up six 3s a game. But we’ve entered a new NBA reality.
I’m not saying I want to go back to 2005, when the Spurs and Pistons opened the NBA Finals with an 84-69 score and closed it with an 81-74 final. But we liked the yin and yang of Bulls vs. Knicks in the 1990s and Spurs vs. Suns in the 2000s, didn’t we?
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