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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2970363, member: 289"]
And man for man doesn't? Zones are used to hide defensive deficiencies . Are those deficiencies going to disappear if we suddenly start playing man? If we aren't active enough to make a zone work, are we suddenly going to be running around covering people in a man for man?

Reviewing the rest of the thread, I think the point about not evaluating the zone based on a game in which we had an out-of position point guard with a bad back and freshman in the back court is s good one.

Dismissing year long statistics and statistics taken over a series of years is nonsense. That establishes the norm. The point about being able to adjust to individual opponents is a good one but the statements that JB never adjusts the zone are wrong. We can collapse it in for poor shooting teams. We can extend it for others and this stats suggest we've done this over the years. We can also get aggressive with traps and we usual win the turnover battle in the zone. A poorly played zone is not a bad strategical concept.

You can't dismiss the good defensive performances we've had in the zone, such as last year's tournament and then say that the times the opponent has gone off from three point range like Virginia and Baylor should take precedence over the over all stats. if individual bad games matter, so do individual good games.

And, by the way, Baylor didn't suck. the gave Gonzaga a good battle and i still think we would have beaten Baylor with Frank.
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