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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 4639270, member: 837"]
All good points. It's funny, was watching the Cuse/Olkahoma sweet 16 game from '03 the other day. OU's hesitancy to just hoist threes is so different than watching the game today with most teams putting 4 or 5 shooters on the floor all game and playing a bunch of 5-out type sets. Some of it was Kueth's length and hustle and our generally strong defensive team, but it was weird to watch how hesitant they were to just bomb away. These days, it's really not even enough to force teams further from the basket. If a player has his feet set and a clean look from 25, you are in trouble most nights.

Anyway, point is, i thought JB's decision to go all-zone in 95-96 made sense for a long time, but the game shifted radically the past 10 years but our defense essentially remained identical (we play our wings much higher and we played some stretches of 1-3-1 I guess, but those aren't big tweaks). We also veered away from putting a ton of length and athleticism up top. I give him credit for the initial strategy, but I just don't understand how we recruited and how little we adjusted the zone the last five years or so.

Again, I'm not super concerned with zone vs. man so much as I am with being able to use a couple different looks and if we are in a zone, putting something out there that is funkier than a traditional 2-3 that dares folks to shoot and allows teams to catch-and-shoot instead of at least forcing them to move their feet.
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