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Have you ever played basketball? To break a pass you pass the ball or dribble. The press, you're flying everywhere anticipating moves before they come. It's much more tiring to press than to be pressed.
But everyone is making that argument that guards just burn the whole press all by themselves in the NBA. Apparently, you don't pass to break a press in the NBA.
And more importantly, I clearly mentioned that why aren't presses used on weaker point guards. I mentioned Darrick Martin. I don't expect teams to press Chris Paul, Tony Parker, Jason Kidd, TJ Ford and such. Thats not smart. However I still believe if it was highly trained and worked on, there is a limit as to how well players can break it. Pippen and Jordan weren't born with the ability to press like gods, they worked at it and they were taught it properly. Getting back to the point, I meant to use this in cases when the guard isn't very quick or good. Another situation you use the press is when you only have one good handler on the court for the team. As richboy mentioned, when Turkoglu leaves the game for the Magics, only the PG can operate, if he is trapped, the defense has advantage because Bogans, Rashard, Dwight, Evans, or Cook can't do anything. No one answered my question of what do you think is most likely to happen when Baron and Ellis press guys like Darrick Martin either.