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[QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 13210, member: 906"]
I like the overall thought that YES the zone can be beat. But so can M2M in the same light. But if you give us a zone with two guards who can really extend out and stops good dishing lanes for the penetrators (Thats where Pitt gives us a tough time in close games). A center in the middle who recovers and is really strong(never gets pushed around to give the offense another 3-4 feet to work) and wings who cover ground well, weakside block and go and get rebounds It Won't get beat all that much.

Even with Andy Rautins and Scoop how good was our backcourt defense two years ago really??? Andy is no NBA defensive stopper not even close look at all the kids who got drafted that are. And Scoop was 6'1 and still had a hard time on defense last year. Triche was awfully slow. And we were a top 10 defense that year. Thets be real here. We haven't had a defensive guard attend Syraucse in over 10 years.

M2M is often times a react to the offense defense. They run around not knowing where they are going to end up lots of the time and try to stay between the ball and the basket In some ways that sort of is a zone. Zone is 90 percent of the time act instead of react which MAKES IT SUPER BADA$$.  There really is 5 responsibilites in a zone. In the same thought, M2M can get away with 3.5-4 easier.
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