After adjusting for his teams' perpetually fast pace, Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus finds that Mike D'Antoni, frequently characterized as an "all offense, no defense" coach, is actually not a bad defensive coach at all -- in fact, he frequently takes bad defensive players and molds them into a league-average D.

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