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<blockquote data-quote="AustinIllini" data-source="post: 1536512" data-attributes="member: 568417"><p>I don't think Syracuse zone principles don’t allow for many physical limitations. They rotate hard, the guards have to be able to shadow the high post, while covering shooters up top, or playing 1v1 defense with the ball handler. The wings have to able to guard the slot, short corner and corner at the same time without being beat baseline. If they are beat baseline they have to recover to a hard trap with the big while everyone rotates accordingly. The outside 4 also have to be able to play ball screen defense and work off pins just like you would in man. The big himself has to be able to guard 1v1 from the high post and sometimes will be required to close out the corner, and not get beat baseline. They’re not playing it to cover physical limitations. They’re playing it to swarm you with athletes and length.</p><p></p><p>This is not meant at you because your first sentence mentions how the zone is unfairly judged. But to me, people like Weber and Painter who say stuff like I’ll never play zone blah blah blah, that’s an ego, bravado thing. People will say well “I’m a man guy” that’s what we’re gonna play all the time. Well I’m a win the game guy. And it’s gotten Boeheim to almost 1000 career wins at Syracuse and a national title. Boeheim’s zone quote about playing his primary defense vs everybody’s second offense will probably stick with me forever. So many in the basketball world see a zone as a cop out defensively. Syracuse uses it as a weapon and to me it’s fantastic.</p><p></p><p>I can see AG flying around up top using his length and leaking out for dunks and 3s, or crashing the glass hard from the top to rebound. It’s a hand in glove fit to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AustinIllini, post: 1536512, member: 568417"] I don't think Syracuse zone principles don’t allow for many physical limitations. They rotate hard, the guards have to be able to shadow the high post, while covering shooters up top, or playing 1v1 defense with the ball handler. The wings have to able to guard the slot, short corner and corner at the same time without being beat baseline. If they are beat baseline they have to recover to a hard trap with the big while everyone rotates accordingly. The outside 4 also have to be able to play ball screen defense and work off pins just like you would in man. The big himself has to be able to guard 1v1 from the high post and sometimes will be required to close out the corner, and not get beat baseline. They’re not playing it to cover physical limitations. They’re playing it to swarm you with athletes and length. This is not meant at you because your first sentence mentions how the zone is unfairly judged. But to me, people like Weber and Painter who say stuff like I’ll never play zone blah blah blah, that’s an ego, bravado thing. People will say well “I’m a man guy” that’s what we’re gonna play all the time. Well I’m a win the game guy. And it’s gotten Boeheim to almost 1000 career wins at Syracuse and a national title. Boeheim’s zone quote about playing his primary defense vs everybody’s second offense will probably stick with me forever. So many in the basketball world see a zone as a cop out defensively. Syracuse uses it as a weapon and to me it’s fantastic. I can see AG flying around up top using his length and leaking out for dunks and 3s, or crashing the glass hard from the top to rebound. It’s a hand in glove fit to me. [/QUOTE]
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