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This principle is one which is understood by all too few teams. It seems that the first reaction of most teams, when their offense is not working, is to dream up a complicated system designed to deceive the opposing blockers and to enable the home-town spikers to put the ball away against a hurried, disorganized block. The fallacy in this line of thinking is that, in nine cases out of ten, the reason for weakness in the attack is poor ball handling. An attempt to employ a tricky, deceptive offensive system can only magnify the ball-handling weaknesses and bring about more mistakes.
It will be pointed out later that the writer is not opposed
to the use of deception in the attack. The point made here is that a team must first completely master the fundamentals before a razzle-dazzle system can be used effectively.
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