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Message: [QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 4598921, member: 8594"] Recruiting fell off for many reasons. The zone is not and has not been one of them. We’ve played exclusively zone since the early 2000’s. Recruiting didn’t die until the sanctions hit in 2015. SU never struggled to get players into the NBA, which flies in the face of the lazy analysis some like to point to that the zone hurts our players’ draft chances. NBA teams don’t get scared off by a kid playing a couple years of a zone with m2m principles. They’re usually confident they can teach a player how to chase another guy around the court, which is the only real difference. Zone defenders still have to fight over screens or go under them at the right time. They still have to play on-ball defense. They still have to anticipate passes off-ball and play hep defense. They still have to defend in the post. Because the zone doesn’t hurt draft chances, there’s no real reason for recruits to avoid SU because of the zone. [/QUOTE]