OrangePA
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I just disagree.I think our coaching staff fell in love with the model after 2003, they just missed out on the luck we had with all that size on the floor (Melo as a SF in College Basketball is simply ridiculous from a scoring/rebounding perspective).
I don't know how else to explain my point other than to suggest you go watch a week's worth of Big East basketball, which BTW is chock full of about 8 teams that would clean our clock (we did beat GTown, they are 1-10 in the Big East right now). Or watch the Villanova championship teams.
Those rosters simply could not play Boeheim's 2-3 zone defense. The traditional positions from a size/length perspective wouldn't have worked, BUT they could dog you all over the court and play through screens in M2M, AND they didn't waste offensive talent at a given position based on needing size/length to fill a spot on Defense.
Appreciate the convo, but there is just a dramatic difference in how Boeheim recruited the last decade vs. the teams that have zoomed ahead of us (I think he would agree BTW)
In my opinion the characteristics of good defense are the same regardless of the system utilized