Known for wearing his trade mark silk scarf, he is considered to be the inventor of the so-called "Pal system", a combination of the man-to-man and the zone defenses.
The Dallas Mavericks are an example of an NBA team that regularly uses zone defenses; during the 2011 Playoffs, their zone defense was credited with slowing down offenses, forcing opposing players to recognize which defense they were playing.
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He had more minutes per game in Syracuse's last four games in January 2013 than the other three players in the rotation in the back of Syracuse's 2-3 zone defense (Rakeem Christmas, DaJuan Coleman and Baye Moussa Keita).