In the "Shark Tank"

On the LSU basketball team, we try to have some fun.  Some of our fun comes from the nicknames that we give to some of the players and to parts of our game.  One of our nicknames is the "shark tank".

The shark tank is our nickname for the paint area of the lane on our defensive side of the court.  When we array the team in a zone defense, the person whose job it is to guard the lane and its access to the basket is told to go into the shark tank.  He plays tough and ferocious (yet clean) defense.  The defender in the shark tank is the key to our success when we play in a zone defense.