Kyle Lowry and Jose Calderon, two of NBA’s finest practitioners of basketball’s oldest trick, square off Friday at ACC.
On the first day of the first practice for any basketball player at any age, the coach starts talking strategy and systems and one of the first things ever discussed is the pick-and-roll.
The ball-handler uses a teammate as a kind of a blocker, a shield, a tool to use to set offence in motion. It’s the most rudimentary of plays, one drilled from the start.