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Coordinated Aggressiveness Leads to Elite Defensive Output – OU Medicine Game Day Report: OKC at PHX

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  • Tip-off: 8:00 p.m. CT
  • Television: Fox Sports Oklahoma

PHOENIX – You can’t hit a target you can’t see. For the Thunder, it’s aggressive defense at the point of attack has relied significantly on that principle and the results have been staggering.

This past off-season, Thunder Head Coach Billy Donovan and his staff analyzed the previous year and noted some problems that kept cropping up defensively with their coverages. Too many straight-line drives were being given up and too many passes being sprayed out to the corners for open three-point shots.