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Dick DiVencio has a great book out called Stuff Every Player Should Know About Basketball. It is a series of unconnected thoughts (over 200 I believe) that intend to teach players subtle aspects of the game that they should know to be better players. One deals with establishing boundaries. He suggests that a player's lane should be 1 ft wider than the real lane, the player's sideline three feet in from the actual sideline. The reason for the first is to avoid a ref mistaking you for being in the lane for 3 secs because the player is close, or the player accidentally standing on rather than next to the lane line. The reason for the latter is to avoid being forced out by another player. I teach all of my ball handlers this concept so they don't whine about another player pushing them out of bounds. If you are three feet inside the line and get pushed out, that's a foul in almost any league. If you get bumped when you are right next to the line, almost always OOB.
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