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Carlisle has preached defense to Pacers

By By Terry Brown
NBA Insider

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Rick Carlisle made Ben Wallace. I'm not saying the piano playing graduate of the University of Virginia, Class of 1984, contributed anything to a gene pool that produced 11 children of which Wallace was the 10th. But he did turn an offseason sign-and-trade throw in into a two-time defensive player of the year. But as we looked over this year's boxscores in search of the best and worst teams in terms of defensive improvements as determined by scoring, we noticed that what Carlisle giveth he c ...

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