Sentence examples for illegal defense from inspiring English sources

What if the illegal defense were eliminated?

Noting Bynum was "sensational," Karl also credited "nice illegal defense".

"He only got one illegal defense," Karl said.

Van Gundy thought the Heat were playing an illegal defense.

There hasn't been one illegal defense called all series.

On one occasion he made what Houston thought was a bad illegal defense call.

Rush rehearses a few fine points on illegal defenses.

The N.B.A.'s elimination of illegal-defense rules created "a zone situation".

But by eliminating illegal-defense guidelines, the league now allows players to be double- and triple-teamed with or without the ball.

Owners endorsed changes that trimmed the time allotted to move the ball to the frontcourt to 8 seconds from 10 and eliminated the illegal-defense rules.

To the originators of the change, however, the game is more aesthetically pleasing than before it took effect, when coaches were taking advantage of complex illegal-defense rules that encouraged a stagnant game.