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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 2357480"]
The only players who scouts might think twice about due to playing in the zone are centers.  Fab Melo being a prime example.  Centers in the NBA don't just hang out in the paint anymore, so you need a guy who can guard them in the paint and away from the basket.  Fab was a dominant defensive center in college because he parked his big booty near the rim and swatted everything he could reach.  He'd be fine in the old NBA, but he couldn't cut it in the current NBA because he couldn't guard anybody more than 8 feet from the hoop.  Our centers sometimes have to rotate all the way out to a shooter in the corner, but they don't actually play m2m that far out, so it doesn't help or show much.  I think the scouts have a legitimate gripe when it comes to centers.

But NBA scouts have zero argument when it comes to the other 4 positions.  None.  They're clowns who should be out of a job if they discount a PG-PF because they played a matchup zone in college.  On any given possession, the guys at PG-PF are playing m2m 75% of the time; that's what the matchup zone does.  The only difference between the zone and m2m is that they don't have to chase guys through screens very often.  Well, as OP pointed out, guys in the NBA don't chase their assignment through screens all that often (on and off the ball) either.
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