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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 2970689, member: 6520"]
I hear you - I just think that it's incorrect to say or think that teams don't have to make different decisions when we make our subtle adjustments within the zone.

If anybody watched Virginia's first round game against Gardner-Webb on Friday, there was a fantastic example of a subtle change to the defense that changed the game (without Virginia changing their defense itself).  I think Raf was the announcer who pointed out that Virginia started the game with their bigs "showing strong" on the pick and roll, which allowed the Gardner-Webb big guy to slip his screen a couple of times for easy layups.  Virginia was down 14 points - the score was 30-16 with under 7 minutes to play in the 1st half!  Then, Tony Bennett made a subtle adjustment.  He had his big (think it was Jay Huff at first) sitting back on the pick and roll a little more - precisely to take away the slipped screens that were killing them.  But importantly, Tony Bennett stayed with their "pack line defense" man to man.  On Gardner-Webb's next 25 possessions (after the 30-16 lead) they scored only 4 times... 21 empty possessions while Virginia remained in their base defense after making a subtle adjustment.
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