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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 1703777, member: 210"] Not to knock you RF as you are one of the most rational and knowledgeable posters on this board but I am one of those pope who perpetually complain about our zone. But I'm not complaining about the zone because it's a poor D, I actually think it's a great D and JB is a genius for recognizing where college hoops was heading and adopting it. The zone is responsible for our recent great 5 year mini-run starting in 2009 and culminating in 25-0. My biggest complaint about the zone is our pace of play has suffered big time which gives almost no room for error on offense. I know you have asserted that our offense is actually pretty good but it's just missing good guard play... My assertion is that even when we have had good guard play we struggle to score points because our pace of play is so slow because of the zone. When the zone is active and pressing the issue and letting us get to some sort of tempo it's amazing for both our offense and defense but we very rarely play with that level of intensity in a game... more often than not we are content to let the other team pass the ball for 25 seconds and launch a last second shot. This strategy worked in the BE and it works against non-conference teams but it's not working in the ACC and agains the more talented teams we will see from the sweet 16 on where teams are more than happy to pass the ball for 20-25 seconds because they are confident they can manufacture a good shot against the zone in the last 10 seconds. So now we are playing with fire because we are playing against teams who are going to get decent offensive efficiency while limiting our offensive possessions and god forbid we don't get the rebound off a miss because thats another 25 seconds where we don't get the ball. I will also say that when a team knows how to get good shots every time against the zone (Pitt) you need to have a plan B. The unwillingness to switch and try something new even for a possession or two has probably cost us a few games over the years. [/QUOTE]

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