UVA is too smart and well coached to play zone against

[Alsacs]

They are well coached and will slice zones up and get good high percentage shots pretty much every possession. We will need them to miss good shots to have a chance.

Honestly this is a team you have to play m2m against and hope they miss jump shots. Every possession against Duke's zone they get the ball to the correct spot and cause the d to collapse.

 

[weepeel]

J. Andersen looks like an unthawed caveman

 

[jordoo]

Yet Dukes crappy zone has them in it late on the road. You do realize any good defense is hoping to make the team shoot contested jumpers, right? 2-3 zone, pac-line, m2m sect. Smart teams that play good offense get good shots against good defense no matter what the scheme. The zone is not a gimmick, its a legit defense just like m2m and just like any other defense it has its strengths and weaknesses.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

They are well coached and will slice zones up and get good high percentage shots pretty much every possession. We will need them to miss good shots to have a chance.

Honestly this is a team you have to play m2m against and hope they miss jump shots. Every possession against Duke's zone they get the ball to the correct spot and cause the d to collapse.

Are you advocating that we play man?

 

[Alsacs]

I am not advocating Syracuse play m2m because we
Won't. I am just saying watching them against Duke's zone they are ridiculously well coached to play against zone. They get the ball to the correct spot every possession.

UVA is just a well coached team.

 

[jordoo]

I am not advocating Syracuse play m2m because we
Won't. I am just saying watching them against Duke's zone they are ridiculously well coached to play against zone. They get the ball to the correct spot every possession.

UVA is just a well coached team.

Well coached smart offensive teams do well against any defense. What's the real point you are trying to make?

 

[007]

They are well coached and will slice zones up and get good high percentage shots pretty much every possession. We will need them to miss good shots to have a chance.

Honestly this is a team you have to play m2m against and hope they miss jump shots. Every possession against Duke's zone they get the ball to the correct spot and cause the d to collapse.

Defense isn't going to be the problem when we play Virginia...

 

[jordoo]

Dukes zone isn't great but it seems to be working alright . . . .

 

[two3zone]

What a game. Duke starts 0-10 from 3 and now they can't miss.

 

[TBCuse11]

Duke and UVA are so, so, so, so much better than us... its amazing.

We should be 10 point dogs vs both.

 

[Ghost]

And Duke goes up three...

 

[Ghost]

Duke and UVA are so, so, so, so much better than us... its amazing.

We should be 10 point dogs vs both.

We'll beat one of them - I hope. We usually have one good win, even when we're bad.

 

[samspann1]

...and yet they have 63 points with :30 left

 

[Ghost]

Was VA's late game plan to let Toby dominate?

Silly Hoos.

 

[cto]

Ball game! That 3 by Jones with 10 seconds to go locked it up. It was a very g good game ... until UVA fell apart at the end

 

[Forza Azzurri]

I am not advocating Syracuse play m2m because we
Won't. I am just saying watching them against Duke's zone they are ridiculously well coached to play against zone. They get the ball to the correct spot every possession.

UVA is just a well coached team.

Unclear to me if they are playing our zone or not.

Some aspects are the same but the rotations are inconsistent and I can't tell if that is intentional or if they are just not as adept at it.

They are morphing into the 1-4 but not consistently.

FYI..with 10 secs left, looks like 2-3 going to beat MTM.

 

[jordoo]

This thread is entering the h-I-larious ZONE.

 

[Ghost]

Ball game! That 3 by Jones with 10 seconds to go locked it up

Kid couldn't have looked more confident going up with that one.

Cold blooded, as Jay Bilas says.

 

[orangefan13]

Well coached smart offensive teams do well against any defense. What's the real point you are trying to make?

great post!

 

[JayCuse]

Bang

 

[samspann1]

Speaking of coaching, Bennett's strategy was to force a stop, and get the ball back with :10 left, and d0wn 3? Dubious, at best.

Also, that Pack Line D got their stuff pushed in hard by Duke down the stretch

 

[Ghost]

Dammit, UVA abandoned the let Toby dominate late plan...and Brogdon gets blocked.

That's why you lost, Hoos.

More Toby needed.

 

[BludOrange]

I think Bennett messed up not fouling with 30 seconds and instead going for the stop. Simply not enough time left if duke scored.

 

[NineOneSeven]

I love that duke didn't let those guys roll the ball up.

Can't stand when teams allow that (cough us).

 

[cto]

Jay Bilas just said... "I will have to call the Duke defense ... "K-Heim."