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Message: [QUOTE="tbonezone, post: 5402822, member: 1028"] say what ? . jb zone was always 3 steps back . open outside jumpers with the center covering corners and zero box out rebounding ? JB's parlor bet was that he'd surrender the three to protect his shallow line up from fouls and expending too much energy on d. the "i'll give up this / take that " philosophy really unravelled when the novelty wore off and teams got really comfortable recognizing and attacking it inside/out and the 3 point shot became the weapon of choice in basketball. his only fall back was the TRUNK MONKEY. too proud to play M2M. JB was a dinosaur who died not by asteroid (although the program took several meteor strikes) , but rather by evolution . too old and too stubborn to adapt to a new reality . thus we became easy prey. thus we ceased to matter. thus spake the bone. [/QUOTE]