SWC75
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JB’s refusal to do anything but 100% zone defense barring the press is just not smart.
Don’t give me our players can’t play man to man defense or practicing it requires all this time.
The fact we don’t change against a team like UNC which KNOWS how to beat this zone is maddening.
I can’t wait to beat the 11 seed with North Carolina as the 2 seed and our potential sweet sixteen matchup.
Playing the zone 95% of the time isn’t a lot to ask. The refusal to adjust is what cost us that game. We couldn’t rebound in the zone. We couldn’t stop White and did we change? No and we lost a game our offense played well enough to win.
You're assuming that the zone is the same all the time and that only a man-for-man can guard people. It's really just a division of labor: do you guard whoever comes into your zone or do you try to follow a guy wherever he goes. A zone can be aggressive guarding people and cause turnovers of it's played aggressively. If the other team has no outside game, the zone can collapse inward and just create a wall to the basket. Don't confuse a zone poorly played at times or poorly played by one player with a bad scheme. And if you aren't active enough to cover players in the zone, you're not going to be very successful chasing him around the court. And if you do something 95% of the time and the other thing 5% of the time, which are they going to be better at
I would like to see some sort of press used proactively, one that at least puts moderate pressure on the other team and allows us to easily move back into the zone if a team successfully gets into the forecourt.