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Originally Posted by just another ref
Beating someone to the spot, thus gaining legal guarding position, is certainly one of the cornerstones of good defense. No matter what "gifted athlete" you are, you better look where you are going.
Along these lines, this is one of the things I like about basketball, as compared to other sports. If you have no athletic ability at all, if all you can do is stand and take up space, if you take up the right space, you can sometimes help your team.
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Additionally, who IS the "secondary defender"? If you change the rules for time and distance based on such a definition, you'd have a real judgement mess....is it the primary defender? is it the secondary? was it the secondary that is now the primary (at what time does that occur)? etc....????? There would be so many 'what ifs' that it could never be called consistently or predicatbly.
The offense would want everyone to be declared a secondary defender so that could either easily pass by all defenders or run over all of them without getting a foul.
Imagine a zone defense...they're all sort of secondary defenders.