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[QUOTE="General20, post: 1703993, member: 724"]
I really think you have this wrong.  Its only possible to dictate tempo when you have the ball.  No matter what defense you play, you can't force the other team to shoot.  Teams can run the shot clock down against man to man and press defenses just as easily as they can against the zone, and it happens regularly.  Look at the last two SU games.  Both Dayton and MTSU were pressing us and pressuring the ball because they were down big going down the stretch and we had zero problems running the shot clock down.

The only way to stop a team from running the shot clock down (other than giving them a quality shot which you never want to do) is to force a turnover, and guess which team gets the most steals in the ACC by a huge margin?  That's right, Syracuse.  They got 29 more (almost 1 per game) than Florida St. who is second in steals, 59 more than Louisville who presses, and 100 more than Pitt who plays tough man to man D.

You'll have a hard time finding a team that plays man to man that traps teams more often and to greater effect than Syracuse does in our zone.

I think the reason you see teams take more time to shoot against our zone is that they have a hard time finding good shots.  This is a good thing.
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