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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 260044, member: 285"]
I don't care what you saw in an All Star game, these kids are really just not capable of playing good man to man defense (unless of course they choose to go somewhere else).    
 
We don't play man to man because its not JB's preferred defense, has little to do with the personnel...except to the extent that JB has convinced himself that he has recruited personnel to play the zone more effectively ie. taller guards.
 
   I've always felt this is one of JB's personality flaws coming through.   Instead of just being confident in his decision to employ the strategy of playing zone defense he often responds to the criticism that he doesn't play man to man, by trying to blame it on the personnel.   In my view it's really not the personnel, the players could have gone to any other program in the country and played man defense...it's just his chosen defensive style/strategy.    If he truly wanted to play man to man and forced the players to play defense, they would play it fine.
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