Opening tip-off, Brown won the ball for the Warriors.
In the frontcourt, seeing Qin Yue signal a one-four spread, the Warriors players quickly cleared one half of the court.
Seeing this, Horford, as usual, placed his arm directly on the opponent's ball-protecting hand while defending Qin Yue.
This was the most common defensive method in the NBA before the hand-check rule was abolished.
With the tacit approval of this rule, defensive players could use arm contact to weaken the ball handler's breakthrough ability and compress their shooting space...
So before the NBA abolished this rule, even the top perimeter stars had difficulty shooting at will.
Except for Michael Jordan.
In that era, which practiced defensive-ism, Jordan's abnormality was that...
He could not only shoot whenever he wanted but was also the most efficient perimeter offensive superstar throughout the entire nineties.
