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[QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 885320, member: 906"]
I find it funny when people say you need to speed up the game to get more possessions and transition. This isn't the 90's early 2000s transition won't win you games you can't win in the halfcourt as much.

You get a few defensive rebounds, and you score on a bunch of possessions. I laugh at this myth of going man to speed up games. When you  go man you try to put more pressure on them just like the press  to force them to make a bad pass or shot. How many times have we passed the ball around succesfully wasting clock against m2m or the press up 15? We do it all time.

Its not that you cut the drive, deny the passing any better in m2m/press then zone, it never was. M2m/pressing can force them to take a offbalenced or rushed shot, but they do the same thing against the zone all time. They take a bad shot against smothering man because its the only open look they can get without a hand in their face, against zone  they do it, because its the only open look they can find off passing the ball.  Zone also just like man morphes and cheats out of position trying to take opponents strengths away, and it is equally succesfull at that. We play enough press to force them to try to shoot a not so good shot, and when they break it we often cut the shot clock down to 15-20 which is also big.

Buckling down, rebounding the misses, and realizing you need to score every possession wins ball games. See the Miami game where we were down with 5 left. When you are a good team you can pull that off at any point in the game it just takes hustle patience and finishing your shots.
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