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http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/275881“We knew he had all the tools,” said Jim Kelly. “As scouts, we just couldn’t figure out why he hadn’t made it yet.”

Why, after all those seasons in the sub-prime loops, did Moon finally break through? Michael Ray Richardson, Moon’s coach with the Albany Patroons of the Continental Basketball Association, has as good a theory as any. He said Moon, when he arrived in Albany, was an athletic freak who could dunk and make three-pointers. But his big-league success has only come since he embraced an oft-neglected art – defence.

“He could play defence. But a lot of times the guys who can play it don’t want to play it,” said Richardson, from his new coaching post in Oklahoma. “He listened to me, and I put it into his head every day, `Just play some defence.’ And there he is in the NBA.”