A basketball court is generally 94 feet long (it's an American sport and is measured in feet)
Historically basketball is played in a beautiful way where one team scores and then retreats past the halfway line to allow the opposing team to advance and score again (this is why basketball matches are such high scoring games)
There is a convention here that people generally adopt which is to allow the opposing team to come on to you to give them the best chance to have a good attacking sequence. It works when two brilliant teams are playing against one another because it basically becomes a shooting match and a dance of rehearsed plays where hours have been spent on the training court like ballerinas working to get things right, working to be perfect.
But what if you're the weakened team? What if you're the team that isn't as good as the good guys? If you play by the rules, if you play to their style you will get whacked off the court. They will defend against your better and they'll score every time they come down the court (there was a game I played in as a boy where we won 104 - 4!)
This goes on throughout many aspects of life. How the conventional guys play the big guys, the guys who have all the resources and how the smaller guys - the underdogs, play by the same rules and get whacked.
There is a system in basketball if you're the worst team - the team with the least skill or even the less understanding of the game. You play all 94 feet of the court, you press the other team from the minute they get the ball, you make sure your team are fitter (if not more skilful) and you chase and run and have the bigger hearts. The funny thing is when you do this to the silky smooth good guys, much more often you are successful.
There is a lesson to be learned here... in whatever game you're playing in, if you try to take on the big guys using their rules they will almost certainly win. If you change the rules and modify your attack then you have a much better chance of running around the back.
Blog Post Number: 916
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