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Message: [QUOTE="Jack Hall, post: 2016756, member: 3962"] Its funny everyones perceptions. My own little perception was that JB started using zone because he liked a real short bench and he could go zone and give his guys a brief blow. But then i saw that JB has a brilliant bball mind (at least defensively) and theres things he could actually acheive with the zone that other m2m teams could not acheive. I am no expert but i only recall two zone defenses (not counting the other "junk" defenses like box and one, etc) that remotely impressed me, and both clearly were not stagnant zones but match up zones. The first was Tom Chaneys from Temple back in the 80s. JB was developing his at same time as i vaguely recall and that eventually JBs passed Chaneys match up zone by and JBs zone is the best zone ive ever watched. When played properly have loved his zone over the years. Whether it should be played exclusively is an entirely diff matter... [/QUOTE]