David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

your opponent’s best player in order to
render her useless. The girls on the team
loved Rometra. “She has always been
like my big sister,” Anjali Ranadivé
said. “It was so awesome to have her
along.”
Redwood City’s strategy was built
around the two deadlines that all
basketball teams must meet in order to
advance the ball. The first is the time
allotted for the inbounds pass. When one
team scores, a player from the other
team takes the ball out-of-bounds and
has five seconds to pass it to a teammate
on the court. If that deadline is missed,
the ball goes to the other team. Usually
that’s not an issue, because teams don’t
hang around to defend against the