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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 3127498, member: 37"] Sending two players to trap the ball leaves three players to guard 4 opposing players. Opposing teams space players to handle traps trying to make it difficult for those three players. Nadav was like an incredible free safety. He either studied film and knew players passing abilities or he was adept at observing them in the game. As soon as the ball handler moved his arms, and before the ball was released, Nadav would break towards the anticipated area the ball was intended to go. Comprehension has limits. Nadav was wired (cerebral cortex, cerebellum) for this. He was in the top 1% with this ability. His mind would rapidly process the height and position of the players trapping the opposing player, the height of the opposing trapped player, the time remaining for a violation, the positions of the remaining opposing players, the positions of his non trapping team mates, the angle of the opposing players arm movements in relationship to the prior conditions and the opposing players ability to throw. At the most you have 3-4 seconds to assess this and usually only a split second. And since the situation is fluid, trappers shifting around the trapped player, opposing non ball handlers moving to different positions, non trapping team mates doing the same, the rate of computation required to correctly anticipate a play becomes overwhelmingly difficult. [/QUOTE]