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[QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2949210, member: 199"]
I think many good coaches adjust their system to the players they have available and if they don't have good post players but have lots of interchangeable mid-sized players they tend towards 'positionless' schemes.

One aspect for Uconn opponents of positionless play is a defense that switches on every screen - you see teams truly stunned when they first encounter it and discover their whole offense which has been predicated on coming open of a screen grinds to a halt when they remain blanketed by the screening player's defender. With Stewart and Tuck the two 'post players' and Jefferson and her pogo stick legs, Uconn's last two NCAAs were essentially positionless. Watching Jefferson front post players was pretty comical, but she quite often came away with a steal or forced an over-throw on the entry pass.

Other teams playing 5 out offenses - DePaul, Villanova, Princeton most years. Stanford sometimes. Princeton men used to scare the heck out of P5 teams they faced in the NCAAs because of that style of play.
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