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Old Thu Feb 10, 2005, 03:49am
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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If you're looking a telephone pole with your body turned towards it, how can you tell if the telephone pole is facing you? (Yes, it's a silly question but it proves the point). You can't because it doesn't matter. Facing is done by one player.

If that were not the case, all a player would have to do is turn their back to the defender and then run over then (since they wouldn't have LGP). Of course, we know that is not the case.

Now if B is running along side A, I doubt they'll keep up with A for long if they're also facing A. Most people aren't that fast with a side step. If they're truly running side-by-side, they're probably not facing the dribbler.
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