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[QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 3678658, member: 474"]
I agree..   We have the zone haters and supporters..  JB has embraced the zone therefor he has to coach to its upside.  I grew up in the m2m press world.  If i was coaching now thats what I would use if I had the right players. 
 Its a culture though.. we have 2 players that would probably be Ok in that style and thats by design.

What we lose sight of its much easier to get a solid D from a zone than it is from m2m.   much easier to hide 1 player and also much easier to rest players or save them in foul trouble.  yeah you can torch a zone if a player gets hot, but it also requires a team to play as a team much more and work and pass, which is something most players these days dont want to do in the 1on1 world.

when the kids do their job.. rotate properly and rebound the zone works up until someone gets hot.

in m2m everyone can do everything right and still not stop 1 good player, thats why box-n-1 or triangle and 2 came around.

every player thinks he can shoot thus so many bad shots. nothing worse than bad shots.

Pitt did everything wrong to lose that game but they got on the boards.. we did tons of stuff right but shot poorly and didnt rebound..

why did we get ahead of pitt/rutgers/gtown?  cause we did things we are supposed too for long stretches.. Why did we almost blow all 3,, because suddenly every shot looked good and didnt value the ball..

bball is the same as 40 yrs ago.. 
take good shots, make shots, rebound the ball and dont turn it over in dumb ways..
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