When you are responsible for covering a person similar in skillset to you for the game, you are playing defense.

Defense: Is a key to winning any basketball game. Teams often change up defenses and change who is guarding who

during the game. Most teams have a main defense they like to run and it usually a zone defense or a man-to-man defense.

Explanation:

protective defense i think i have no clue about basketball but my bf is lol

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