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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 2159901, member: 534"] The UConn press of the early to mid-nineties was a unique tool based on a team of athletes. All designed to get the opposition to bring the ball across the time line at the sidelines. And trap at half court where the sideline and the half court line become extra defenders. The rest of the league figured out ways to avoid the traps, and it only came out of the trick bag when we played 'strangers' for a while. But not working on it constantly makes it less effective and pretty soon, it disappeared entirely. Eventually we became a more frontcourt-centric defensive team, (obviously the Mek/Boone/Hilton/Charlie era, but even the 99 team with Voskhul and KFree) we only used the press as a nuisance to shorten the opponent's offensive clock in the half court. The early 90s zone-trap press helped establish us, but its time is long since passed. [/QUOTE]