

Basketball correspondent
Marcus Webb
TorontoAt SportPulse since 2020English
Basketball. Coverage rotations, the film room, and why the pick-and-roll broke.
Covered three seasons of the Continental Basketball League from the baseline before joining the desk.

League expansion: what twenty teams means for the calendar
Two more fixtures a month, one fewer rest day, and a television deal that pays for both.

Harbourside’s fourth-quarter engine runs on one impossible shot
Down eleven with six minutes left, the Herons ran the same action nine times. It worked eight.

Valley Voltage have found a rotation, and it is only eight deep
The bench is thin by design. The minutes say the coaching staff meant it.

Fourth-quarter masterclass: 18 points in 7 minutes
Every possession of the run that turned an eleven-point deficit into a six-point win.

Why Ridgeway’s drop coverage keeps losing the corner
The big stays home, the guard goes under, and the weak-side shooter has all night.

The film room: how the logo three bends a defence
Coverage rotations start twelve feet earlier than they did three seasons ago.

Ridgeway hold the core — the numbers
What keeping a starting five together does to a defence, in four charts.

The scout who watches 340 matches a season, alone
He has not been to a match with anyone he knows since 2019. He would not have it any other way.

Power rankings: the six, ranked by what the film says
Records lie for a month. Possessions do not.
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