The 3 Second Rule in Basketball

Video Transcript

"When we're talking about the lane, which is this square here, something that's really important and it usually applies to big men and not so much guards, but it applies to all offensive players on the court. When you're inside this lane, you only have a maximum of three seconds to do, to stay inside the lane so usually what you have to do is, especially if you're a big man, this is hard to remember because a lot of times big men like to camp, camp out down here and do whatever they do to get spacing so that they can catch the ball and make the shot for their coach. But, when we're talking about people in the lane, usually what the big man or anybody on the offensive team has to do, is step inside of the paint and then step outside of it. And once you get outside of these, outside of this border, these lines, you're pretty much good; the count starts over once you step back in. So, you want to keep that in mind, whenever you're in the paint, you don't want to stay in the paint more than three seconds. Just also, just as I was talking about the out of bounds line, this is also something that drives your coaches crazy and if you know these little rules, these little simple things before you come to the court, they'll help you out in the long run. So, always remember you only get three seconds inside these little, little lines in the paint."