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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2124010, member: 199"] And it is really hard to prepare for, because I don't think any other team in the country plays that defense - switching all five positions. It is one of the things that makes that first game against Uconn so hard - you get the switch on a ball screen usually and you have two mismatches - a guard trying to cover your 6'4" post and looking lost and a post player skating around the arc trying not to be embarrassed by a fast quick guard. You saw that with Baylor where you had Brown ending up trying to cover William - a full foot of height advantage being shown up by quickness. (Or, if they don't switch, you get the hedge and recover and your guard has that moment when she isn't being guarded by anyone and the rolling player isn't being guarded either and you exploit that.) That basic fundamental part of almost every offense run, getting those mismatches and then exploiting them, or the confusion they engender is useless against Uconn - the thing that you have depended on for 30+ games and practiced for a 1000 hours made inoperable in an instant. You could see it clearly last night, Oregon running a screen and being confused because they had no advantage and running another and another and still being stifled. [/QUOTE]