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Message: [QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 3278397, member: 994"] No, it's quite simple really... It's a story most all of know and understand. [LIST] [*]I said this was a familiar loss - the type of loss we see a few times every year, where zone gets demolished by some very average player that slices the zone apart in the key with short jumpers or baseline dishes for layups... for a career high. [*]I then said the root cause of this classic "zone-only" loss was our inability to switch tactics to some semblance of a satisfactory MTM defense in these scenarios and it renders us incapable of making any effective adjustments - i.e. we have no plan B. [*]I then said I hoped this would change when we had a new coach and regime after JB... Someone who would coach and use MTM effectively with the right players when warranted. [/LIST] You then tried to create a hypothetical scenario that I had to prove how this would work in the Clemson game e.g. "...if I was coaching the Clemson game, to describe the exact MTM changes I'd make to win that game..." I did not respond to that scenario, because it wasn't what I was talking about. My point was this game was an example of a trend we know well. But if you must know, on this specific game... [LIST] [*]I wouldn't make any changes. [*]I would simply accept the loss. [*]These players aren't coached to play MTM and therefore would be terrible at it. [*]We also lack the requisite athleticism at several key positions to play MTM effectively in the ACC... don't have a true center, recruiting inadequacies, yadda yadda... The list goes on... all stuff we already know. [/LIST] So I'm not sure what your point is... but yes, I look forward to a day when a Syracuse team can make an in-game adjustment to play MTM defense effectively when the zone is getting shredded. ..and I don't think that's a bridge too far or some sort of blasphemy to say that. [/QUOTE]

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