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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by blindzebra
Actually, how fast you are won't always help you either. If you are working trail the way you are supposed to, you WILL get beat back. I can run down some of the younger kids, and some of the girls at the varsity level, but if I'm working the backside of a play and I'm around FTL extended and a long rebound happens, I'm toast. Unless you have world class speed we all are in that situation.
It comes down to working it from either behind, moving toward the center of the court, or working it wider to get a look like the center would have in 3 whistle. But like you said the worst thing you can do is try to outrun it if you can't get there easily.
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You are 100% correct, of course. In 2-person, no one can beat the ball every time, so it's important to have that fall in behind thing down solid. (Actually, the hardest part of that move is getting out from behind if you don't need to call a foul.) But it ought to happen only two or three times in a game, except for the highest level of varsity. At least that's the mantra around here.
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In Arizona our former commissioner was so pro NBA, that it got crazy. We had they grey shirts, we were using non-fed mechanics, funny how we never got 3-person passed.
Anyway, he stressed new lead getting to the endline before the ball crossed the division line. That is the NBA influence and you found so many officals CHEATING back on the shot, just so they would not get beat back, that the games suffered.
I find in those rare ocassions where I'm beat, that working it wide gives me a better look, then moving toward the center of the court. I can see the whole play, adjust for the look through, and get to the endline easier from the sideline versus the closest lane line.