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Old Sun Mar 11, 2018, 01:28pm
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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
I thought secondary defenders were for the plays in the lane? This is not in the lane. Either the lead gets over to that side of the court so it is in his primary or he lays off this call to the center official as he sees the entire thing. I think the center probably had some issue with the lead on this play.

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There is nothing magic about tracking a defender through your primary to a point just outside the lane. The official tracking that player still has a far better idea of how that player got there than someone else, even if he passed an arbitrary line. The whole concept is that the C would be busy with the primary defender and wouldn't usually be able to pick up a secondary defender reliably. Nothing in this play changes that.
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