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Old Sat Dec 25, 2004, 07:26pm
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Originally posted by TriggerMN
Leave it to the NBA to come up with oxymoronic rules.
Trigger, instead of trying to make fun of it, why don't you try to understand the rule? The old illegal defense rules were designed to prevent a defense from double-teaming a man without the ball. Each defender had to either (a) defend his "own" man or (b) give help defense on the man with the ball. The defender was never allowed to defend nobody. He couldn't find a spot on the floor and just take up that space.

The new defense rules are not designed to allow zone defenses. Rather, they are designed to allow a defender to double-team a player without the ball. But it is still the case that the defender is never allowed to defend nobody, while standing in the lane.

The point of the illegal defense rule is still to prohibit a player from simply taking up space in the lane.
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