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i believe what r lobo was saying, but i could be wrong- i do not pretend to know every detail of how uconn sets up their D! i believe she meant it is LOT harder to help if clark can stay in the middle of the floor. so they try to keep her on one side when she has the ball. then every player from the other side of floor can be at least partially in the paint if not completely in
on the ball side of the floor, basically if you think of a pass from player with ball to player you are guarding, how much ground could you recover while the ball was in the air on pass to your player. THAT is kinda the starting point to how far off your player you can be. you would like to be able to recover to good fundamental guarding position while the ball is in the air.
from there coaches/ teams can adjust from game to game and player to player depending on the quality / ability of each player. SO it they strictly do NOT want clark to beat them and are willing to COMPLETELY dare any other player on the team to beat them then most to all the defenders can cheat further in clarks direction, i am not familiar with clarks teammates but i am guessing someone else can score ok or knock down wide open shots. the bigger the threat of the other player the closer you stay to them
maybe an example- i would say what lobo is suggesting is VERY much like the way UND played against noah in second game at frost. first game he had about 26 with at least 5 3s maybe 6 or 7, second game they had a person who NEVER helped off of noah. ALWAYS at least one player with in about 5 feet of him no matter how far away from the ball he was and when he had the ball at least one more if not two more players where cheating significantly in his direction.
he did not score nearly as well as night before but i think both posts were around 20 and they got thumped by a very similar score
i hope this is what you were asking me to explain. sorry maybe you already got all this. and i am sure plenty of others do. i do not mean in any way to sound like ANY kind of know it all!! i am far from that!! i usually refer to myself as a knucklehead, but this is the question i understood you to be asking and i tried to explain as briefly and simply as i could
on the ball side of the floor, basically if you think of a pass from player with ball to player you are guarding, how much ground could you recover while the ball was in the air on pass to your player. THAT is kinda the starting point to how far off your player you can be. you would like to be able to recover to good fundamental guarding position while the ball is in the air.
from there coaches/ teams can adjust from game to game and player to player depending on the quality / ability of each player. SO it they strictly do NOT want clark to beat them and are willing to COMPLETELY dare any other player on the team to beat them then most to all the defenders can cheat further in clarks direction, i am not familiar with clarks teammates but i am guessing someone else can score ok or knock down wide open shots. the bigger the threat of the other player the closer you stay to them
maybe an example- i would say what lobo is suggesting is VERY much like the way UND played against noah in second game at frost. first game he had about 26 with at least 5 3s maybe 6 or 7, second game they had a person who NEVER helped off of noah. ALWAYS at least one player with in about 5 feet of him no matter how far away from the ball he was and when he had the ball at least one more if not two more players where cheating significantly in his direction.
he did not score nearly as well as night before but i think both posts were around 20 and they got thumped by a very similar score
i hope this is what you were asking me to explain. sorry maybe you already got all this. and i am sure plenty of others do. i do not mean in any way to sound like ANY kind of know it all!! i am far from that!! i usually refer to myself as a knucklehead, but this is the question i understood you to be asking and i tried to explain as briefly and simply as i could
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