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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2042936, member: 966"]
1) I didn't say or suggest that either is inferior to the other. 
2) You cannot conclude that 'good defense play' wouldn't also be achieved by the same team playing man, if it were coached competently. We used to consistently have better high schoolers on the floor than the other team. We [I]should[/I] have won games. 
3) '"best defensive team's year after year" sounds like an assertion based on a stat, and you can make stats say anything. Points against? The result of a slow pace. 3pt percentage? How does the other team compensate by scoring at will in the paint?

We have absolutely had some teams where the zone was a weapon. With devastating results in a few games. But we have been defended by bad teams with no real talent, playing tight man to man and no one mentions that that defense was better than ours. There have been notable wins with the zone, and we remember those effects. Yet when we lose because of the zone, no one attributes the loss to it—some rationalizations and excuses are made. Our zone can be good, but in how many years is it really a plus? No way to know. As there's no way to know which possibly better players we might have signed if we didn't play a 'non-NBA defense.' Can't it even be a consideration that if we were a m2m or mixed D team that we would have one more FF or championship? Just because something is tied to your identity doesn't mean there couldn't have been a better result a different way.
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