double team
Verb
Meaning
cover with two defensive players
Source: WordNetAlternative names
double-team
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Double team counterintelligence: You’ll see the AI using less movement and create more spacing for shooters spotting up behind the three-point line to punish excessive double teaming.
They hoist Billie up and hit a double-team STO on her!
The Bucks delivered a double-team move off the top rope, the Motor City Machine Gun’s finisher, which Excalibur referenced.
“Double team instead of doing the press, we just played man-to-man and trapped them.”
Ross Millar of the Lake City Basketball squad goes up for a pair of points in spite of the Similkameen double-team defence in the Lake City Boys Spring Tip Off tournament at KVR Middle School.
So, the two men back with kick returner cannot double-team one player trying to cover the kick.