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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 2979594, member: 6979"]
this comment reveals a lack of nuance in interpreting anti-zone commentary...the nuance is there...you just haven't seen it yet.

man defense can be DESTROYED just like a 2-3 can...

SOME teams - a la 2019 UVA - are much more likely to go off on a 2-3 than a good man to man team with size...

i would argue that 2019 UVA is better suited to beat a 2-3 zone than a good man to man defense...

most teams are not constructed to be better vs zone than man - but some are.

you need a specific recipe to be a ZONE KILLER:

good 3 point shooting, good ball movement/passing, size and rebounding, interior passing...

not many teams have all of the ingredients - but the ones that do - a la pitt under jamie dixon, villanov undrr wright, uva under bennett, unc under roy, louisville under pitino, etc...DECIMATE THE ZONE with regularity...

hmmmm...seems those teams have had SUs nu,ber over the years and have won a lot of championships over SU too...hmmmm

against the teams that do not have all of the necessary zone-busting ingredients---the zone is awesome.

also - i would argue that certain players on SU have been very good zone defenders and some havent - john gillon was pretty bad, for example - when there are 1 or 2 bad defenders in the zone - it becomes a sieve.

thanks!!!!!
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