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Message: [QUOTE="Ghost, post: 2864769, member: 581"] I do have to question at some point where we start to reach diminishing returns on our zone. 1. It will always be impactful in the tourney as schools struggle with the length, and are less familiar with it. This allows us to keep games close - and we can make a run. That's nice. We've seen it happen a couple times recently. 2. Recruiting for the zone seems to mean having zero aptitude on offense - which means almost everyone plays us close and they can make a run and we're in for some troublesome games - that likely shouldn't be. Thus, bubble every year. 3. How much do we lose by getting a skilled a PG? A shooter? Is it really so awful that it would completely negate the zone's effectiveness? I would think, especially against crap teams, if we could play faster we would increase possessions, as we increase possessions crap teams are going to lose track of us - just because we have superior talent. This means a better seed perhaps, or at least maybe not being on the bubble. It's so easy to slow us down - when we're not slowing ourselves down that almost any opponent can make a game of it just by minimizing possessions. 4. As more teams can surround the three point arc with shooters - is the zone going to remain as effective? Who knows. We seem to be recruiting so heavily for the zone that we're becoming the most boring team ever created. I do know that. That being said, Battle should be better, and maybe we thought he would be the dynamic 2G we needed for an ISO offense. Howard seemed sort of creative and explosive as a Frosh...not so much any more. I don't know what we're trying to accomplish with our centers and PFs. OB seems to fit the mold of what we want at SF or even workable at PF...but he and Battle, and now Howard all seem to have regressed. I can see where the pieces made some sense - at some point. We just seem unable to adapt, or get anyone to improve. Carey was a good pick-up. It just seems like we're all over the place. I'm not sure what we're doing with recruiting tbh. [/QUOTE]

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