Not P but yet another English question

[Mark Kohut]

I sent definitions, even a YouTube video figuring you had the simple
definition, so I can't help more....

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 3:00 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Mark.
>
> I did encounter the basketball term while searching, but I wasn't sure how
> it applies to this situation. Is Ron Jeremy supposed to be the "pick" here?
> Does it mean he was in the way and she got around him somehow? I'm still
> not quite sure how it works.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 3:46 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> What does it mean to set a pick? ---
>> Here's the definition of a pick: *When an offensive player legally
>> blocks the path of a defender to open up another offensive player for a
>> shot or to receive a pass*. When setting the pick, you should: Feet
>> spread - you want to create a wide base that is hard for the defender to
>> get around.
>>
>> https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/articles/how-to-set-pick-in-basketball.html
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_and_roll#/media/File:Trevor_Booker,_Tony_Parker_and_Kirk_Hinrich.jpg
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=set+a+pick+basketball&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALiCzsZoZEjO0EiRwQ2CHJcoKqjp5M5Bbg%3A1667723620525&ei=ZHFnY5HcH62bwbkPoeOPwAY&oq=set-pick&gs_lp=ugYGCAEQARgJEgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnC4AQH4AQEqAggAMgYQABgHGB4yBhAAGAcYHjIIEAAYBxgeGAoyBhAAGAcYHjIGEAAYBxgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgewgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICDhAAGOQCGNYEGLAD2AEBwgIHECMYsQIYJ5AGDUiva1DlCVjJDXABeAHIAQCQAQCYAV-gAZsBqgEBMuIDBCBNGAHiAwQgQRgA4gMEIEYYAYgGAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:39f66c8a,vid:ke5-IMRUcXY
>> I once saw this done on an elevator in a business setting. Kept
>> someone from confronting another as they started arguing on the
>> elevator and were now getting off...
>>
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>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 12:36 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Big Red Son *(from*
>>> Consider the Lobster and Other Essays*):
>>>
>>> Whereupon in turn Ms. Jasmin St. Claire, seeing Harold Hecuba clutching
>>> the
>>> upraised hand of an agitated and off-balance Nici Sterling, performed a
>>> set-pick off the three-foot width of Ron (“the Hedge-hog”) Jeremy and
>>> leapt
>>> on Hecuba’s back and deployed what Filth averred was a pretty authentic-
>>> and impressive-looking LAPD-style chokehold
>>>
>>> What is a "set-pick"?
>>> --
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>>>
>>