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[QUOTE="grepal, post: 4134744, member: 1121"]
Through careful thought and implementation.  More of an eastern than a western philosophy, one tries to look at a problem from all angles and think each possible solution out before implementing a change of plan.  I do not remember SU playing an almost exclusive zone defense in the beginning of Coach Boeheim's tenure.  I recall a D.O. article where Fast Eddy Moss was talking about the man-to-man principle of defense he was adjusting to from high school to college.  He called it King Me or King You.  Whoever won the matchup was King.

JB really went to the zone almost exclusively as a reaction to a thin roster brought on by our first probation if I recall correctly.   Western philosophy if management is a little more shoot from the hip.  
Both philosophies have inherent strengths and weaknesses.  Lou Carnesecca would use his Ambush "Bush" Defense based on a gut feeling of when the time was right.  He had success with that more than once.  Like the debate in baseball of should one go strictly by analytics or should one be guided by analytics but couple that with a "gut" feeling.
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