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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 1590945, member: 966"]
But, in m2m, don't you have Options? Front him. Play behind him. Double team him upon the catch... In a zone, the ball does all the work and the big stiff just has to BE somewhere. In m2m, he's gotta do some work. This guy averaged 10.5 points in his other games this year. Doubled that against us. Averaged only 7.5 attempts per game. Got 12 against us.

Sure, any one player can get hot against any team and have a career day. But, we see a lot of career days against us. Usually from the outside, but too often from some schmuck without much real talent. The ball does the work, and the schmuck just has to be shot-competent.

I imagine this was common to all youth/CYO leagues, but when I was a kid, other teams' coaches would always have a scheme where one kid would just be deadly from one spot on the floor. He wouldn't shoot from anywhere else. That's all he would even practice. And they'd pass the ball around us in our zone, and eventually it would find its way to that kid at the elbow and he'd be halfway into shooting position as he caught it. And he'd light us up. Simplest thing in the world. If you payed him one on one, he couldn't do jack. But in that limited 'robot role,' he was all world.

Hayes scored 4 points against Wisconsin and 2 against duke...
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