are those who are schooled in appreciation of clever ball handling, good
foot work, and excellent head works It is said that the fast break covers

up a multitude of basketball sins. A teem my employ the fire-engine type _
of taskethall, rushing pell-nell, helter-skelter dow the floor, sid at times
they will catch their opposing defense off guard and outnumbered, and the —
employs only the fast break is very apt to pay little attention to defenses
Their own goal is often umguarded and an intelligent team playing against a
their fast breaking opponents off guard.

The cmon Gonseytion of tum work ie that it applies catly to the
offense, when in reality team work shows at its best on the defenses ‘This
misconception can be attributed to the fact that in the early develoyment
of the game the players in possession of the ball were the centers of
attraction, while very little thought was given to the players who did not
have the belle All efforts were placed on scoring, and no attention given
to the work of preventing the opponents from scoringe ie sendte of oe
perience have changed these conditions until now the two phases of the game
are given equal consideration, and in muy instances their order of inportanse
has been reversed. :

The guard is the bipedal watchdog of the baskets He should always be
found between his opponent and the basket. A good guard will hound the ball.
A wily guard will never let the opposition slip in behind him, He will play
the ball and not the man. A crafty guard must Imow how to use his weight to
advantage, without foulinge . |
ALI. prospective guards should take boxing lessons. The boxing skills