[M&M Guy]

Originally posted by ChuckElias
...but as I've said 100 times,...

Now, Chuck, if I've told you once, I've told you a million times - don't exaggerate.

The women's (and NBA's) coverages routinely require two sets of eyes to shift their fields of vision in common situations where the men's coverages require only one shift (or none).

But, don't you shift your eyes more than that? What about when a player passes to a teammate still in your primary? Or a player dribbles from your primary to another area? Or a pass comes in to a cutter in your area while you're watching the post players? We're moving our vision constantly. I agree it would be nice to focus on one set of players, like your example, but it seems as though we are always moving our eyes.

In the men's coverage, neither T nor L has to shift the field of vision at all in this play and the Lead is already ready to officiate the ensuing rebounding action.

In our case, the primary rebounding resposibilities fall on the C and T, usually because they have a better angle on the ubiquitous "over-the-back", er, I mean the pushes from behind.

It may sound bad, but it happens very often in the Men's game as well. Ball goes OOB on the endline opposite the L. It's the Lead's whistle even tho s/he may not even have been looking at the play.

You beat me to it. That's the exact example I was going to give.

As far as which is coverage is better, it's obviously up to better minds than mine. Each one has it's good points and bad; apparently the powers-that-be feel that the women's mechanics work for the women's game. Is it because there's less posting up? Or more cutters to watch? Or, just because they want to be a little different than the men's side? Who knows. All I know is it works when everyone's on the same page. The tough part for me is going from college one night to HS the next and keeping things straight. But, I guess, that's why they pay us the big bucks, right?