| Ford, who keeps his big guys happy, can ease into cruise control and efficiently run the halfcourt game. |
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| In back-to-back games, the Magic was able to lure the Knicks into a run-and-gun victory, but the Heat stubbornly refused and beat Orlando in a halfcourt game. |
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| The time for X's and O's and meticulously drawn halfcourt sets, he believed, had passed. |
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| Mike D'Antoni's up-tempo, spread-the-wealth system has been almost entirely abandoned, in favor of halfcourt sets and isolation plays. |
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| Clement said he played the entire game and was instructed not to cross halfcourt on defense, even though he did a few times. |
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| Florida needs to be consistently effective with its defense, whether the Gators are squeezing opponents with their full-court press or locking them up in the halfcourt. |
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| It was the beauty of the opponent's sticky, stifling, halfcourt matchup defense. |
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| The Celtics were more organized on the fast break and vastly superior in the halfcourt, and when they needed a defensive stop they certainly knew how to get one. |
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| The second technical was called after Mayo walked back toward the players gathered at halfcourt. |
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| The key to beating Tennessee is taking away the easy points that come with run-outs and stickbacks of rebounds because its halfcourt offense is not the smoothest operation. |
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| Before the game, Rivers prophesized about a prevalent series misperception: that the Knicks would try to run and the veteran legs of Boston would try to reel the pace back in and play a halfcourt game. |
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