Nick Friedell of espnChicago.com shares with us some thoughts from Joakim Noah regarding the importance of improving defensively even if the numbers say your good:
"You guys look at it as numbers," he said. "You guys look [and say] 'Oh, look, we're good defensively.' It doesn't matter. At the end of the day you have to go out there and go get the stop at the end of the game. So you're not thinking, 'Oh, well we're going to get the stop because we're a good defensive team. You have to get better every day. We work on the same things that we worked at from the first day of practice. And we can still improve defensively.
"It's not like just because we're a good defensive team doesn't mean we can't improve. To be a championship caliber team, you can't loosen up. You have to have an edge to you all the time. All the talk, all the media talk, all that doesn't help you win basketball games."
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