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Okafor coming to fore, defensively

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

FORT MILL, S.C. – All eyes are on Emeka Okafor, the team's only recognizable face and the center of an intense marketing campaign (Okafor in '04). After a disappointing summer playing towel boy on the US Olympic team, Okafor is slowly rounding into form. In the two scrimmages we saw, Okafor looked very raw offensively, bricking point blank shots and overshooting the basket badly when stepping out further on the perimeter. However, defensively he held his own against the very physical Jah ...

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