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[QUOTE="CuseFaninVT, post: 848782, member: 2002"]
I think your point about the reduced number of possessions is on the money, but the other teams aren't "waiting" until 5 seconds to shoot.  They just can't get around our D.  We force them to take bad shots with 5 seconds to shoot. 
 
And the D rebounding is a further result of this.  Two things happen against the zone - long shots or (like on Sunday) guards penetrating.  On a long shot you typically get a farther bounce away from our bigs.  Thus our guards have to come back in and grab those boards - sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.  When they do, that keeps them from leaking out and getting the break really going.  When they don't you get an offensive board for the other squad.  We don't want that. 
 
Now if a guard penetrates, that usually means one of our bigs (or more than one in too many cases) will rotate and attempt to block the shot, typically leaving them out of position to get the defensive board more often than not.  I'd love to see BMK and Rak stay more disciplined and challenge the shot from the floor (a couple times on Sunday they could have had blocks from their feet but ended up falling prey to the head fake and the guard ducked under them).  That keeps them in better rebounding position as well.
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