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[QUOTE="DangerZone, post: 4515405, member: 8061"]
It was just an observation, really.  The SOS is alarmingly weak - partly because of the sheer percentage of home games, partly the opponents.  Certainly, there are other metrics that come into play.  KenPom gets increasingly unreliable when you get beyond the first 50 teams or so.  But it was not the case that Louisville was over their heads last night.  They were atrocious on the line, didn't shoot particularly well from the floor, had at least a dozen unforced turnovers and managed to put a very defendable Girard on the line for 11 attempts.

JB has been correct about Colgate.  He's made the comments two years in a row.  I thought at first it was him just exaggerating the ability of Colgate at the moment to squash the embarrassment of having loss by a rather large margin the last two games.  He said that Colgate is probably the best of all their opponents when it comes to attacking the zone.  And by God he's right.  [B]I think it is entirely possible that one could build an even weaker SOS for Syracuse that would produce the kind of record Louisville has right now.[/B]  Colgate is likely not the only team.  There are probably several teams north of 150 that know exactly how to move the ball against the zone and would do so in a variety of ways, thwarting each of the rather subtle adjustments that JB makes within the zone.  They'd be garbage on paper, but they can hit a knuckleball.

It never ceases to amaze me just how little preparation is made to face the zone.  Teams would be better served studying the Colgate footage as opposed to the normal approach of game film review.
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