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Message: [QUOTE="Ceerqqq, post: 2537162, member: 6702"] I know JB tries to teach his clubs every year, right from the start, how to turn the zone into a pressure defense weapon, but it does seem as though something clicks at this time of year. I don't know what it is that Jimmy and his staff tell his players at tournament time to convince them that they can't take any defensive plays off in tournament games. We've seen it two games now and we saw it on our last FF run. I imagine the entire staff preaches the word that the only way ANY team can win a national championship is if they can play defense at this level of intensity, applying this kind of pressure on the other team (no matter what kind of defense the play). This year he seems to have added ferociously attacking the boards to the defensive intensity focus and its given this very young team the kind of hammer they need to be able to prevail against the giants in these Effort Is Everything contests. [/QUOTE]