[ed. I've been watching the NBA playoffs lately and while I admire the obvious skills, I'm pretty much clueless about the actual strategies involved. It just looks like a bunch of guys running around trying to get open or block shots, even though I know there's so much more to it than that. So I spent some time on a few strategy web sites (like here, here and here), but it seems this is one topic that just can't be conveyed in written form (at least to me). Check out the above video if you're similarly befuddled. It seems to explain a lot about what's going on (although, given the speed and fluidity of the game you may have to pause it now and then to really see the finer details).]
