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Below: the action every offense keeps coming back to, a double round that left Real Madrid winless, and the coach who wants a reason for every shot.

Issue 14. Round 4 starts on Wednesday.

Nobody has solved the pick and roll

Written down in 1922 and attacked by every defense since. How the action works, what it grew into, and the connections it produced in the EuroLeague last season.

Rounds 2 and 3: Real Madrid are 0-3, and Elijah Bryant won the week twice

Twenty games in five days. The rust cleared, Panathinaikos and Fenerbahce are perfect, the eleven-time champion has not won yet, and one guard took both MVP awards.

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Saras Jasikevicius wants a reason for every shot

The notebook, the points per possession, the rules that never move. He was the best point guard of his generation. Now he coaches, and he has changed.

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