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[QUOTE="Coach Orange, post: 2063773, member: 2260"]
Show me the great athletes that they have. I have shown concrete examples of things that have hurt our zone that Virginia could not do against it. Those precise examples show that the zone was more effective because of Virginia's lack of athletes who can exploit the flaws our zone has demonstrated previously.

No where did I say "let's lessen the value of our zone or our win." That's being added by those that didn't want an objective discussion of how that win occurred. I did, however, argue that match-ups often matter to the success or effectiveness of an aspect of the game in a single contest.

I would call your claim about Virginia's offense making Louisville look inept a tad hyperbolic. They scored 61 points and shot 25% from three. Perhaps their defense mattered to winning that game, and perhaps Louisville's personnel and how they matched-up mattered in that contest, too.

By the way, efficiency numbers are not considered wholly credible in coaching circles because they contain flaws that don't tell the whole story. Just throwing that out there since that seems to be the evidence for the claim to why athleticism doesn't matter when our zone works well.

Edit: For transparency's sake, I want to add that I did say that the value of top-ten wins is devalued some in the current era based on the frequency that such victories occur. Look how many happened just yesterday. However, I am not devaluing SU's wins in a vacuum. I'm applying that across the board, so SU's wins are as valuable as other teams' good wins. My analysis was explanatory in nature, not punitive to SU alone.
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