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Sun Mar 04, 2012, 08:35pm

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Originally Posted by MiamiWadeCounty

Do you know when an offensive player is posting up a defender, and the defender is leaning over the offensive player's back, and then the offensive player erect his body to create space?

If the defender is leaning over the offensive player's back, then he is violating the offensive player's vertical space. The offensive player has the right to erect his body. That's what verticality is.

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