Depending on where players toss the paint ball, it splatters across the landscape at a slightly different angle than a previous play-through.

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The real fun begins with paint, as Mr Ball describes in rich detail the development of artists' colours from medieval to modern times.

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Miami began the game by pounding the ball into the paint, which eventually opened up the perimeter, where the Knicks were slow in getting to Miami's shooters.

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"We were moving the ball and doing a good job of closing the paint up, " Durant said.

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But it is the expressive power of paint, especially oil paint, as an artist's medium that really gets Mr Ball going.

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But Vogel called for time the next time his team got the ball, and the coach pulled his best defensive player, paint protector Roy Hibbert.

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Paint cans by Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton line the floor, a chocolate disco ball by Walker hangs in one room, canvases by Neo Rauch and Imen Dorf cram the walls.

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"I think we were turning the ball over too much and we just weren't executing and we just weren't attacking the paint, " center Roy Hibbert said.

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When we're good, we get in the paint and I'm getting my dunk balls and that's when all our shooters get to line the ball up and get looks.

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