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[QUOTE="JeffCuse, post: 4598342, member: 1151"]
Jim Boeheim was a legend. It was his defense. And when it worked, it worked, It baffled people. And Boeheim had the cache, as much as I hated it, to run that defense until the day he left. And he did.

But the fact is, at its BEST that defense left us vulnerable to less talented teams who got hot deep, even when the 3 wasn't necessarily as omnipresent as it is now. At its worst, which has become more and more commonplace in recent years, it leaves you completely exposed to modern 3 point offenses whose shooters are able to shoot from deeper and deeper by the year.

This is the chance to transition to a modern defense that allows us to more effectively cover modern offenses. Sure, you can have some zone to switch to from time to time. But it cannot and should not be the primary defense of a new coach in 2023. Maybe 10-20% of the time if you want. That's IT. Yet I still see people arguing that the 2-3 still has a place as a primary D.

I don't get it. What is with the strange personal attachment to a defense the failings of which have caused many of us to pull our hair out night after night in recent years?

Look, when you have the greatest to ever coach it in house, maybe there is hope that the D can still work more often than not. But with JB out of the building, the idea of sticking to a dated defense that has begun to fail us on a predictably regular level is just absolute folly.

Be sentimental about the person. He left yesterday. The effectiveness of the schemes left long ago.
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