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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2886212, member: 405"]
No, we make lots of adjustments every game.  Jay Bilas calls it a "Scouting Report Zone" - meaning that we adjust it to what the other team is good at, and try to take that away and make their other guys beat you.

If the other team's offense is making threes, we push them farther out, and bring both forwards up, almost like we're playing a 2-2-1 defense.

Then, other times the other team is getting into the lane, so the guards will back off a bit.  If the other team is hitting the entry pass to the foul line, we pinch the guys in to try to prevent that pass.  If the other team tries to throw it over the top for lobs, then we bring the forwards back down a bit.

If we have an opponent who is over-powering our center like Zion Williamson did for Duke, then we took the ball side forward and sagged in front of Zion, to make it hard to throw him an entry pass, so he didn't absolutely kill us, and we won the game.

So if you don't think the zone makes adjustments, you just haven't learned how to watch it yet.
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