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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 1592070, member: 966"]
"Centers in the zone are basically playing m2m against the other center."
That's what one would typically think/expect/hope for, but just yesterday, on one of the earliest possessions, DC ended up having to cover a deep corner jumper. The rotation left it unguarded, and he went flying out of bounds, past the shooter in that corner. Which has two negative effects. For one thing, in m2m, a guy defending a jump shot rarely is so far away from his man that he's got to travel so far and with so much momentum that he flies so far past the offensive player. Usually, the defender is jumping straight up. Secondly, when a post player is moving toward the corner and OOB, a prime rebounder is completely out of the picture.

Just one specific example that I recall with my feeble memory, but as it happened, I realized it was related to this thread. Happens all the time, though, and it doesn't really matter to me if its the C position. If it's Roberson similarly out of position as a result, that's perhaps more damaging.
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