basketball play


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a play executed by a basketball team

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Still it was his basketball play that ultimately became the defining highlights especially when he dodged Stockton's punch.
Is it just me or is Bill Walton driving everyone crazy as a basketball play commentator?
The winter chill also brings along with it the beginning of SEC basketball play and the second phase of the Hogs' season.
Palin, who eats moose burgers, was dubbed Sarah Barracuda for her aggressive basketball play at college and is a keen hunter.
The act was taken off a page of Dennis Rodman's playbook; Memphis Grizzlies guard Tony Allen, out of frustration from a previous basketball play, hit a cameraman's equipment during in his team's game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night.
"It's just my teammates trusting me to make the right basketball play, and then always knowing that I put the work in so it's going to come back to me in return, for situations like that," Eagins said.
'So when he did that, the foul of Pogoy on Goulding was called a foul, an offensive foul, it was a basketball play but he was the one who came in and he decked Pogoy for the fifth time,' he added.
Ware's injury is similar to George's in a sense that it came from a same basketball play: Ware and George were the defenders in this play and was challenging a shot of an offensive player.
LOWELL - Kiana Brown had another big game for Triangle Lake, which stayed undefeated in Mountain West League girls basketball play with an 86-59 win against Lowell on Wednesday.
Red Auerbach, on the greatest basketball play he ever saw: "When I told my players to guard Oscar Robertson by holding their hands as high as possible and spreading their fingers as wide as possible, then saw Oscar score 40 points by shooting between their fingers."
It was a simple basketball play that turned out to be special.
"A normal basketball play -- we had a bunch of guys going for a rebound and I don't know exactly what happened, but I feel like my arm got stuck somewhere," Markkanen said.
'I think I just tried to make the best basketball play I could at that time.
I was just competing on the ball, made a basketball play. I can't control how the man feels.
'I feel like anytime [I see] the double coverage coming, I just see it in myself to score but it's all about making the right basketball play. If they triple team me that means somebody else in my team is open so I kick out for the shot.'