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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2358266, member: 837"]
So is this a response to my original post? Because I don't think I insinuated that NBA teams play zone. Or at least I didn't mean to. My point was that when you watch NBA teams play man -- it's not dudes fighting through screens and each guy getting a man and only switching when that player gets beat. it's a ton of hedging and doubling and secondary and tertiary sliding. Was just watching the Lakers/Wiz tonight and LA on defense played a wizards pick and roll by having the guard go under the screen and having the man on the opposite wing commit just enough to force the pass and then recover to his man on the outside. Looked exactly like the way our two guards operate at the top of our zone.

On another play an LA guard drove baseline and the Wiz had all four other defenders react by flattening out along the baseline and then pushing back out on shooters once he kicked the ball out.

It's just interesting that while it's still very much man-to-man, how much all of these teams need to rely on rotations and help. The best defenders are often the guys who can guard multiple positions on the floor, but a close second are the guys who excel at disrupting passing lanes and quickly reacting to the offensive actions.

Just food for thought.
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