One of my favorite signs at basketball games is D-Fence. I love a good pun and it fits in nicely to its associated chant (D-Fence, clap clap clap). Thanks to the quirks of the English language, we throw an F into the first syllable of offense, leaving O-Fence signs to be grammatically offensive. As a result, basketball games feature fans chants for defense, not offense.
However, that might be the only domain in which defense has the upper hand. In almost every other aspect of the sport, offense reigns supreme. I’ll review two recent examples that piqued this piece before wildly speculating on reasons for this (possibly legitimate?