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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4583128, member: 229"]
A few things I know in this man to man versus zone discussion is that Joe Girard can't play either defense and Jesse Edwards wouldn't be able to play man to man either.  Taylor would struggle.  Bell would struggle though I think both he and Taylor could play it with practice.

People throw around 'they've been playing man2man their whole lives.  But the difference is they probably weren't playing it very well.  Teams don't play defense in high school or AAU.  Were anyone on this team offered by schools who get after it on defense?  Duke and Joe?  Maybe but he wouldn't have left their bench.  There are 359 teams who play m2m but most of them aren't very good.

IMO, guys on this team with good lateral quickness and instincts who could jump right in and play man in the ACC are Mintz, Torrence, Brown and Benny; maybe Copeland.  JB plays zone as much to hide weak man defenders like Girard and Edwards and I single those 2 out because they are 60% of the offense so they have to play.

Where JB has failed defensively is mixing it up and not just zone/m2m.  But pressing and full court trapping and some 1-3-1 stuff.  If anyone remembers the last game or few games of last year he did this and it was very successful.  So successful that I thought we'd see a lot of that mix this year and we haven't.
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