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The paint in the game is probably referring to the key and when you're offense you can't stay in the other team's key for more than three seconds or you're called.

The key is the rectangular section marked out with a black line in front of each net.

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The rules differ slightly in European Basketball and NBA basketball.

In European basketball doesn't have offensive 3-second calls, that rule was implemented by the NBA during the 90's to prevent that eras dominant centers to camp in the paint and catch and dunk.

A 3 second call in the NBA means that you have been in the restricted area (the key/the paint) for over 3 seconds and results in a turnover.

A defensive 3 second call means that you've been camped in the paint without an offensive player to guard in the restricted area and the call for a defensive 3 second call is a technical free-throw (no tech is assessed to a single player)

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it means that your standing in a zone.. in the Nba u can play a zone. You have to be moving the whole time

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If an offensive player is inside the key for more than 3 seconds, his team loses the ball. The purpose of the rule is to keep a big man from standing in the key waiting for a pass.

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