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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2316126, member: 966"] • That video features Carolina, but that doesn't mean it takes their talent level to do the same things. It's an [I]example[/I]. Seems like, before every televised 'big' game we play (which in and of itself is less and less frequent), some talking head/s show similar clips and 'dissect' our zone. Other teams do the same things, either for spurts or all game long. • "...with the proper personnel, length, IQ, etc; the zone is a force." Add "[I]experience and inclination[/I]" to the list. So, then the effective question becomes: "going forward, [I]how often will we have this recipe[/I] for 'a force?'" We now have our best players going pro 'almost predictably' a year before we expect, so we're always playing with inexperience, and out of position. • We may have won our only NC with (slightly more of) a mix, but that just happens to have coincided with Carmelo. And then, oddly, after he left, whenever we tried to play man, even against scrubs, we were decimated. What happened to our ability to play it, and/or the staff's ability to coach it? I honestly think JB would try to mix defenses, but we've been so woeful that he grew frustrated with even trying. I don't like that he's given up on such a staple that 95% of other programs are able to make work. But, yeah, we've been so bad at it in recent years that even fans who dislike the zone don't want to see us switch into m2m. And it seems unnecessary t0 consider a 1-3-1 or whatever, because our 2-3 [I]becomes[/I] something of the sort, on the fly. • In my mind, crediting the zone for "2 FF in the past 5 years" is canceled out by the constant bubble-ness, being on the wrong side of it, ACC tournament failure, and our midpack conference status. [/QUOTE]

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