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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4506418, member: 1414"] I think it was Tommy Heinsolm who called it that. With an elite defensive center and shot blocker (Bill Russell), the perimeter guys guard tighter on the perimeter, when their man goes by them, they'd say "hey Bill" and he cleans it up and protects the rim. Works with Bill Russell. Worked with Emeka, Boone and others. Calhoun, huge Celtics fan that he was, used that to great effect at UConn, which is how we lead the country in blocks for like 7-8 years in a row. The challenge today is that your center is probably going to have to go out to guard an opposing center than can shoot 3s. Rusell didn't have that problem. Emeka didn't have that problem. They could probably recover fast enough to still make it work most of the time. Embiid can, not many others. Few teams play that way today, and [URL='https://sircharlesincharge.com/2017/04/15/nba-shot-blockers-gone-2017/']shot blocking is way down[/URL]. Suffice to say, UConn does not run that D. We do not expect the center to protect the rim against penetrating wings and guards. Instead, UConn's D has tried to cut off that penetration before it starts. So we have Donovan, well suited for that Hey Bill D, not well suited for what UConn has been running. My sense is that the team has to choose to change or not. [/QUOTE]