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[QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 2975105, member: 78"]
the more i dig, the more i realize that JB just gets it - he has such a great memory and intuition that he might not need the stats as much as other coaches.  he's just knows - he finds low hanging fruit, he has an advantage over other people's judgment that's not driven by stats.  meatheads just know deep down that the offensive rebounds given up in a zone hurt you too much.  boeheim knows that really, it's just not as big a deal

i wonder if the zone fouls less than other defenses.  that might be an unseen benefit of the zone that doesn't really register with us.  we remember the games where teams go off and don't see the games where they might've gone off against man but outside of a few odd games, we don't really remember getting murdered by FTs - i bet boeheim remembers though

I'm guessing here - I think Boeheim maximizes the floor for how bad we can be because he has some humility about how much impact he can have on the ceiling.  He can affect the height of the floor and he can't affect the height of the ceiling - that just comes with spectacular players.  guys like sherman, coleman, wallace get you over the semifinals hump, anthony gets you over the finals hump, and guys like richardson and MCW can get you over the regional finals hump
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