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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2544461, member: 780"] But what Duke is doing with its Boeheim-influenced Zone is very much different than what SU does it. Tom Izzo said it perfectly in his comments before the game. He explained to the interviewer that the Zone was fundamental to SU’s basketball culture. He said they recruit specifically for the Zone. They are constantly modifying it and improving it. The players continually understand how to play it better and buy into it as a weapon. That’s fundamentally different from the occasional use of the defense. I have gotten the sense from the last three games, based on watching the games and listening to the player interviews, that these guys understand just how significant a weapon this defense is when opponents unused to playing against it start having to deal with it in a pressure situation. The numbers in the past three games speak for themselves. [/QUOTE]