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

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whistle.
“When we first started out, no one
knew how to play defense or anything,”
Anjali said. “So my dad said the whole
game long, ‘Your job is to guard
someone and make sure they never get
the ball on inbounds plays.’ It’s the best
feeling in the world to steal the ball from
someone. We would press and steal, and
do that over and over again. It made
people so nervous. There were teams
that were a lot better than us, that had
been playing a long time, and we would
beat them.”
The Redwood City players would
jump ahead 4–0, 6–0, 8–0, 12–0. One
time they led 25–0. Because they
typically got the ball underneath their

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