I don't know how anyone could watch that game and think our D is the problem here. When Lousiville made their run over half the points were on fast breaks...
Here are the two big problems with man 2 man D...
- you can't play CJ fair as a PF against legit teams in man 2 man. If we had, that beast Herell would have had an even more monstrous game than he did yesterday
- our guards are so slow that they would never keep up with smith and siva in man to man even if they had two weeks of rest much less the 4 games in 4 nights
Syracuse is the zone... we recruit for the zone and we live and die by the zone. I hope whenever JB hangs it up the next coach adds some variety to our defense but right now we can't really do anything but play zone and our players and our entire strategy on offense and defense is based on the zone playing well. If it's not then we lose... there is no plan B because this year's set of players specifically would be pretty bad at anything but zone.
Here are the two big problems with man 2 man D...
- you can't play CJ fair as a PF against legit teams in man 2 man. If we had, that beast Herell would have had an even more monstrous game than he did yesterday
- our guards are so slow that they would never keep up with smith and siva in man to man even if they had two weeks of rest much less the 4 games in 4 nights
Syracuse is the zone... we recruit for the zone and we live and die by the zone. I hope whenever JB hangs it up the next coach adds some variety to our defense but right now we can't really do anything but play zone and our players and our entire strategy on offense and defense is based on the zone playing well. If it's not then we lose... there is no plan B because this year's set of players specifically would be pretty bad at anything but zone.