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Hero Ball

Basketball Intelligence
Apr 19, 2013
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Hero ball*

*Or how NBA teams fail by giving the ball to money players in crunch time

Recently, Henry Abbott (ESPN"s TrueHoop) wrote that the Rockets often fail in late game situations because they rely too much on "hero ball".  He linked to his previous discussion of the issue of hero ball (which ran in ESPN the Magazine) here:  http://espn.go.com/nba/sto…

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