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[QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1544351, member: 906"]
The problem is having good on the ball defenders, and guys who can cover ground fast not as much what defense you play.

And if you don't have guys who can cover ground fast or on the ball pressure, then another problem arises as you can't extend the zone as much against good three point shooting teams.

On top of that on the ball defending and moving in the zone are not easy things to do for freshmen,especially on the ball defending. We have had alot of soph's and fresh leave in recent years as well.
Even dion, mcw ennis were not ready to do that uptop as fresh, Howard could be more ready.

I don't feel  Lydon is covering ground all that well yet at the four but hes hustling his hardest,  Malachi has been a beast covering ground and rebounding Hes getting tough boards even. He just happens to look more like a breakout sensational sophmore then a freshmen the first few games minus a few bad long passes imo. As for lockdown defending you don't have to do as much of it at forward.

As for Center first and foremost I give Dajuan and Obokoh  a ton of credit that haven't been beat baseline at all yet and huge props for that. That's a true test if your worthy of some playing time in conference play.

As for zone vs m2m, we almost always lose in march from poor shooting and turnovers if you go back and read the box scores.  One test you can do is to take the turnover differential margin and add those shots to your missed field goals and you will see what you really shot.
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