It's always tough to see all the defensive hand-to-hand combat going on down in the paint unless you're sitting fairly close to the floor of a college basketball game, as opposed to watching on TV or farther upstairs. It's also hard to understand team defensive concepts, that sometimes seem to go against what you'd want from an individual one-on-one defensive match-up, unless you've actually been to practices and film sessions (or participated under a specific philosophy at the college level) and seen the process of incorporating the concepts.
I harken back to a game where a "player of the year" point guard was on a post-game show, admitting that he absolutely could not stay with my guy one-on-one. And his coach coming on right afterward, praising the player for executing the defensive game plan perfectly. To the common fan in the stands, it looked like the player was getting torched and his teammates bailed him out. To his coach, he was doing a great job of funneling to a spot on the floor. The player understood that the key to slowing the offensive player down might also make him look like a bad defender to the fans. I'm guessing that Dawn P was referring to the same type of things when talking about Hart's defense last night. Sometimes it's something as small as forcing a post to set up at a slightly different angle, 12-inches up the floor, from where they normally like to set up.
