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Basketball Intelligence
Jan 11, 2014
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- The concept of ‘two nine,’ or how big men patrol the paint (from Doug Eberhardt, SBNation):

” Players are technically allowed to stand in the paint for three seconds while guarding nobody. We explain how that fact has created NBA jargon that teams practice to maximize that time.”

Read it here: http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/9/5292374/nba-help-defense-br…

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