appeals to reason and common sense.
The second principle was more
important. Ranadivé was puzzled by the
way Americans play basketball. He is
from Mumbai. He grew up with cricket
and soccer. He would never forget the
first time he saw a basketball game. He
thought it was mindless. Team A would
score and then immediately retreat to its
own end of the court. Team B would
pass the ball in from the sidelines and
dribble it into Team A’s end, where
Team A was patiently waiting. Then the
process would reverse itself.
A regulation basketball court is
ninety-four feet long. Most of the time, a
team would defend only about twenty-
four feet of that, conceding the other
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