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[QUOTE="Ceerqqq, post: 2701269, member: 6702"]
My thesis (and this may be Jim Boeheim's POV as well) is that, when you have long athletic players executing your zone [I]and they have gained a lot of experience re: how opposing teams will attack it[/I] you're going to encounter very few opponents who are able to "figure it out."

This, because the experienced zone-playing opportunist is going to know what's coming up, and will be looking forward to stepping into the passing lane to take that ball away.  We started to see more and more of that at the end of last season, as our weak-side forwards stepped in to deflect more than a few interior passes when they were attempted.

I expect we'll see that happen much more frequently this year, right from the get go.

Yes, Duke will have the talent to defeat the zone and a good basic knowledge of what they are facing, but will it be enough to overcome the experience our athletes have gained over the past year?  If our guys succeed in turning the passing lanes into oh-so-clever traps, as I suspect they will?  We shall see...

Last year's NCAAT result suggests that [I]this year[/I] Duke's lottery players may not be able to overcome the edge that our experience has given us, defensively...
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