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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2074489, member: 285"]
Agree there are times that with proper spacing and good ball movement, you are simply going to have open shooters.    The ball moves faster than the defensive player.    If the defensive player has to rotate to support another area of the floor, he often has to leave a player/shooter in the area he is vacating to do that.      I guess the question becomes whether you want the support rotation to occur or not?

I would think one of the nuances of a zone is understanding when to make the rotation and when, situationally based on the particular players on the floor, not to.     It's hard to get the rotations down, has to be even harder to learn when to ignore that responsibility and stay at home on a particular "shooter", keeping in mind that guys are moving in and out of your area of the floor.   You may look up at one moment and its a non-shooter there (who you should rotate away from to help) turn your head and the shooter (who you should not rotate away from) rotates into your area.

You have to be aware of players being substituted in and out of the game, who the good shooters are and even who the hot shooters are and then also be able to keep tabs on where they are on the floor at any given second.   It's harder than it might seem, and easy to keep tabs on a guy for most of the game, but lose him on a play here or there over the course of an entire game.
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