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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4075415, member: 3535"] However, from college and on throughout the WNBA, I know that teams felt the best way to defend her was to prevent her from getting around picks, thus they try to slow her movement. By slowing movement one thing you do is grab. When she was in her prime you never wanted to give DT space. And if she puts the ball on the floor, the defender wanted to get into her chest and use their arms to put their hands on her waist to slow her down. It's not as prevalent now that she is 39 but in the past the idea was to deny and/or be physical and use your hands on her. To counter that DT uses her own physicality. On the flip side, it's probably why Katie Lou struggles to get shots as an example. She can't counter the defenders physicality with her own like DT can. So it goes both ways. DT needs to be more physical to counter the defenders own "dirty play/physicality” with her own. At the highest level pros are desperately looking for an advantage. [/QUOTE]