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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1190720, member: 40"] You answered your own question. Double teaming is one way to overplay someone, but it isn't the only way--and if people are equating double teaming = the only way teams strategize to overplay someone, they're mistaken. If I'm a coach who isn't worried about Cooney driving, then I'm absolutely coaching his defender to stay up on him, to fight through screens so that you're sticking right with him and not giving him any space to get set, to encroach on him so that he doesn't have room to catch a pass let alone get a clean / uncontested look, to find him in the open floor to challenge and limit his transition three opportunities. I'm also coaching my defender to absolutely do not leave Cooney under any circumstances, including dropping off of him to defend another player on a drive, just to ensure that Cooney doesn't get a kick out pass / clean look. It was a smart strategy. ACC coaches recognized that neither CJ nor Ennis--the only other players [along with G, to a lesser extent] in the rotation who could hit threes--were volume shooters who were threats to light it up from downtown and stack threes. So they overplayed Cooney to take any clean looks that he didn't get in transition, and they took their chances with CJ / Ennis. And given that we were a slow, isolation-based offense with limited weapons and even fewer shooters last year--it was a good gamble. If they did the things described above to someone like, say, Devendorf--he'd blow past them off the bounce and make them pay for selling out to take away the three point shot. If they encroached on his space, he'd burn them with his ability to get to the hole and finish on acrobatic drives with either hand. And when they backed off him a little to protect against the drive--that was the space he needed to pop a three. To date, Cooney hasn't shown the ability to make the opposition pay for overplaying him. And it doesn't have to be taking it all the way to the rim--sometimes the ability to even just take a hard dribble or two is enough to free you up. Which is why many of us were clamoring for him to show that extra dimension to his game. It's tough to be semi-one dimensional at the high major college level unless you do some things really, really, really freaking well. Despite what some would have you believe, Cooney is no slouch--but he also is probably more of a complimentary scorer than a featured weapon. [/QUOTE]

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