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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 4169696, member: 6979"]
after 45 years at the helm of a major and successful college basketball team I think it would be hard not develop a "healthy ego" and perhaps a bit of hubris

i think a big part of sticking with the zone - as JB employs it -  is it gives the coach the chance to be the string pulling puppetmaster of the defense

He can decide how other teams must attack his team...and thats very alluring

He can flex his mental mastermindedness

this season, with the extreme lack of athleticism his roster has...not so much

I agree that its not really all that great nowadays...its just too predictable and too vulnerable...i think when its done right though...its just about as good as it gets ...that frank howard tyus battle team was pretty stingy with the zone ...they were winning rock fights on the reg with it.

And JB has a point in that ...teams like VT do socre pretty well and shoot well from 3 vs Man to man

I jus think the real problem is being too formulaic and rigid

we can see how the 1-3-1 wrinkle throws teams off...gotta be unpredictable, imo
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