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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2239031, member: 966"] That one question can have two answers. If the zone helped us win more games than we would have won playing M2M, then our elevated profile because of the wins makes us more attractive. If the zone turned off impact recruits who went elsewhere, then we lost games/rankings/seeding/tourney games by not having those impact recruits. I'm not sure why most people above are looking at this in purely a 'what does zone do to NBA considerations' perspective. Can't kids just not want to play zone? That's as much of a personal preference as a guard or SF wanting to run and gun, or a post man wanting a half-court, feed the center game. Except it affects ALL of the players, not just positionally. Personally, if i'm a top 20 kid, there's no way i'm going to a zone school. The exceptions are in the same mold as the affinity for 'home teams.' If y0u grew up liking certain player or a certain school for some reason, maybe y0u ignore certain factors. The other possible negative: If you get kids who expressly want to play zone, maybe that says something about that kid. Sounds like i'm casting aspersions, but really—speaking in generalities, i don't get it. In pickup games, who jumps up and yells, "we'll be skins, and we'll play zone!" If you're in CYO, in high school, AAU, whatever... what kind of player is going to be geeked-up when the coach announces you're playing all zone this year? Not really the kind of player i want. But, again, of course, players can ignore that in favor of other considerations. I'm just sayin'. Lastly, the claim that we've still gotten 'loaded draft classes' while being exclusively a zone team... That's an assumption that we wouldn't have gotten [I]loaded-er[/I] classes by [I]not[/I] being exclusively zone. We have 1 NC. Maybe we'd have 2. We used to get higher-ranked kids when we weren't a zone team. Now, we get kids in the 20-75 range. Lots of things have changed in the recruiting environment, and we're no longer kings of the castle/league, but how do we know we're not disqualifying ourselves from the elite? [/QUOTE]

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