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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2829095, member: 966"]
So, lemme axe y'all this:

We've had heated 'discussion' in the past about whether our All Zone scheme hurts or doesn't hurt our players in terms of their NBA prospects and subsequent play on Defense. But, at some point in the last decade, we supposedly changed from a team that practiced Man most of the time, while playing Zone in games, to a team that only practices Zone. So, does it have an effect on our Offensive skills to only be faced with Zone in practice?

If, in the past, our guys were running offense against the types of Defenses they were most likely to see, might that have better prepared them? Are we seeing stunted, clueless offense now because they are forced to develop 'differently' now? [I]Something[/I] is different. We have th same assistants/staff for the most part.

Here's the other thing—our zone fans always seem to remind us that 'the defense is great, but the offense sucks.' But, ODom played better defense than we did, apparently. With a bunch of non-4/5 star kids, on our floor. No one mentioned their D. So, really, how good could ours have been? I'm kinda sick of seeing someone respond with a cherry-picked stat. At some point, you have to actually look at what's happening on the floor, not on the page.
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