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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2010058, member: 966"] • If JB hadn't signed Melo (early), he would have 40 years and zero national championships. True. Having Melo is a guarantee of a national championship. False. • A portion of JB's "1000 games" was against cupcakes at home. True. • An apparition? False. It happened. And fortunately, we 'only' had to beat one really good team to get there. True. And even in that game, we were getting beaten, again, by a team of less highly-acclaimed recruits, again... until Mal went rogue and decided he really, really, really didn't want to have to study ever, ever, ever again. True. • Tavern League zone. False. It's a really good zone... 1 out of every 5 or 6 years. The other years, it's null or a liability. And we still can win games with it being null or ineffective because we usually have more talent on the court than the opposition. Unless we're playing against a really good coach who knows how to beat the zone. Others? • JB is a genius. False. • We only have 10-12 offensive plays, "because our kids can't remember more than that." Evidently. • "We don't box out—we just 'go get the ball.'" — Did he really? • Recruiting to the hinterlands of upstate new york is a hindrance. I dunno. • Great players don't want to play zone in college. Someone with a better memory should chime in: where was DC1 ranked? Billy Owens was a #1/1a, along with Mourning. Pearl was...? Our three top five high school recruits? All from when we were not an exclusive m2m team? Since the tv heads have been telling everyone incessantly during our broadcasts that we never leave the zone, have we had a top 10 recruit? I'm just asking... A correlation? • Until a couple of years ago(?), we used to only practice man2man in practices, yet we played zone in games? I believe JB said this multiple times and it was confirmed by 'insiders,' but i never remember seeing a quote in print. Whatever. So, now, we practice only zone. Is that right? How has that affected our zone efficiency? • JB: 'The volume of our FT misses is unimportant, because we shoot more of them than our opponent.' Something like that. Discuss... [/QUOTE]

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