Our defense lost the game

[Townie72]

I know what he believes, that isn't the issue. My problem is it is difficult for me to follow your lead and think he is infallible when there are plenty of examples that contradict the line of thinking that playing one defense no matter what is the optimal approach.

Please, stop with the credential line. I'm begging you to be better than that. Do you know Coach K's credentials? Are his good enough for you? Because he game plans and has the temerity to not handcuff himself to one defensive plan regardless of what the current game situation, his personnel, match ups, etc are showing.

Also, I fundamentally do not understand this weird claim you keep making that anyone who thinks playing the zone exclusively has hindered us at times is "being emotional". It's just an odd stance to take. Again, you do know that the other 35-40+ years JB didn't win the national championship it was won by a team who played something other than a 2-3 zone exclusively, right? So it isn't this irrational thought that something else might work.

I have already done myself the favor of reading "Bleeding Orange" and I understand his explanation, but understanding what he is trying to say and blindly accepting it as fact are different things.

So you read the book, read the explanation and choose not to accept what he says.

In a nut shell, he's wrong and you are right? Is that what you are saying?

I'm not blindly accepting anything.. I accept what he says.

You are arguing with JB because you don't like other teams scoring against SU.

Su defensively is one of the top teams in the country. But other teams are going to score against any offense.

Switching to a part-time M2M defense is one of the dumber ideas ever floated on any message board.

 

[Townie72]

What explanation is given when a team that has literally 1% to beat you beats you with the ONLY way they can which is bombing threes from 30 feet? Lucky or not you can't stop it and from the zone. Yes the zone is usually good at defending the 3, but not when the can drain them from far out. St. John's isn't beating us inside no matter what but we let them beat us by staying in the zone and giving them 30 footer after 30 footer. At what point do you try and stop their luck? We play man and face guard their shooters and they have no chance because that was the only possibly way they beat us.

So how far out will you closely guard these three point bombers in M2M?

20 feet? 25 feet?

I don't know about you basketball experience, but in mine when I tried to guard someone way out, they generally blew past me, got into the paint and then either got a lay-up or passed to someone else for a lay-up.

I think the St John's guards would be particularly good at that.

There is no defense against the 27 foot 3-pointer. If they can hit that regularly, you are most likely going to lose.