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<blockquote data-quote="Champaign88" data-source="post: 1703304" data-attributes="member: 748106"><p>It’s a very valid criticism. Underwood was stubborn in running his defense of drastically over-playing the passing lanes in the first two years when it was clear to me after the first few conference games that the defense would never work in the Big Ten. We continued to run that defense and get torched game in and game out, and it took two years of that and someone in his ear about it to actually change. </p><p></p><p>There’s really no excuse for not even having a basic zone defense. You install a few principles on the wings on how to help and recover off of swing passes. Any D1 player should be able to understand and execute a zone defense even if it’s rarely used or practice with the baseline principles installed. It would have made Maryland do something besides back down 6’3 guards with 6’8 forwards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Champaign88, post: 1703304, member: 748106"] It’s a very valid criticism. Underwood was stubborn in running his defense of drastically over-playing the passing lanes in the first two years when it was clear to me after the first few conference games that the defense would never work in the Big Ten. We continued to run that defense and get torched game in and game out, and it took two years of that and someone in his ear about it to actually change. There’s really no excuse for not even having a basic zone defense. You install a few principles on the wings on how to help and recover off of swing passes. Any D1 player should be able to understand and execute a zone defense even if it’s rarely used or practice with the baseline principles installed. It would have made Maryland do something besides back down 6’3 guards with 6’8 forwards. [/QUOTE]
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