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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 2975125, member: 1674"]
It's a little more difficult, but most of the time, you have 3 or 4 guys that are guarding someone when a shot goes up. The whole point of a zone defense is to be aware of who is in your zone at all times. If players are failing to box out because they aren't aware that they have someone nearby, then they simply aren't playing the zone defense correctly in the first place.

SU's players literally don't try to box out. It's not just Syracuse; a ton of teams have this issue, but it's definitely an issue for Syracuse that nobody makes an attempt to box players out.

Look at the highlights from the tournament game and look at how lazy our players are on the vast majority of these. Granted they're highlights so the shots are going in but it's littered with examples of everyone just sort of walking towards the hoop, not caring if a Baylor player is in front of them, and just waiting to see if the shot goes in before they attempt to get into position to rebound.

It's just a lazy mentality and has nothing to do with the defensive system that they're using. Credit to Brissett, who I generally dislike as a player; there's actually a couple examples where he sees a Baylor player in front of him and works to get around them to position himself for a rebound, though even for him, it's not a consistent thing.

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