First Pacers practice all about defense, rookies discuss Day 1: 'a moment that I’ve been waiting for my whole life'
Observations from the start of the Pacers' season — with an emphasis on defense and rookies getting up to speed.
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Defense, defense, defense.
“That’s basically what we did the whole day,” Pacers free-agent signee Bruce Brown said Tuesday after the first practice.
“The defense is very different from what I’ve played so just trying to get u…