Witnessing Princeton's back-door play can make even the most subdued fan dance for joy at the spectacle of supreme basketball choreography.

In 1983, Larry Brown ran a back-door play that even Riley would have booed.

Running back-door plays and whipping the ball around like seasoned infielders executing the double play, the Nets made 13 of their 21 shots (62 percent) in the first quarter.

It's the standards by which they were shamefully selected on an odious back-door play in order to assure Springfield, Mass., of celebrants for its three-day enshrinement festival.

We are all living in homage to Red Holzman's brainy players who won two championships with the back-door play.

We were sharp; they ran the back-door play.

The back-door play was closed.

But this team is more mechanical than its predecessor, which double-teamed on defense and worked back-door plays and picks and rolls to greater effect.

The Tar Heels took great delight in running back-door plays for layups and setting up, successfully, the lob pass for slam dunks.

They have no basketball savvy, poor passing, no back-door plays and minimum movement.