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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3768414, member: 199"] Geno always teaches his defensive players to force to the sidelines and the baseline. And he teaches his offense to always move toward the center as they bring the ball up. A player at the center line of the court can go either way and as such has an advantage over the defender. Typically, Uconn players play a center line player straight up, but as soon as they commit to a direction Geno wants to keep forcing them in that direct by overplaying the center. Early in a season, new players have a tendency to 'overplay' the overplay - leaving too much of an angle toward the basket and inside the defender. I saw a bit of that today. The idea is not to prevent passes back toward the center but to prevent the player driving toward the center. (Specific opponent players may be extremely left or right handed in which case the scouting report may specify overplaying one side against that player even at the center line, but teams as a whole are seldom heavily weighted left or right.) [/QUOTE]