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We beat the zone with a combination of high-post flashes and guards penetrating seams either from the wing or with a ball screen at the top.

If you want to see what happens when you make no effort to use the dribble against a zone, watch what MSU did this weekend. Plenty of passes to the high post with little effectiveness.
 
Paragraph from ESPN article on Duke's transition to the syracuse zone. Doesn't bode well for the NBA futures of many Dukies. Coach K couldn't get the 1-and-dones to buy into working hard in a man-to-man.

"His players couldn't stop anyone playing man-to-man. Opposing teams couldn't hold the Blue Devils' high-powered offense in check, but the opposite end of the court had become a nightmare. Guards were beating senior Grayson Allen off the bounce with regularity, wings were driving past Marvin Bagley III, and bigs were making fellow freshman Wendell Carter Jr. look like he was swimming in quicksand."

"It was an embarrassment," one coach who faced Duke told ESPN. "It was a combination [of the fact] that they didn't want to defend, and that they couldn't defend."
 
Jaker said:
it's killing the college game, just brutal to watch. And now Dook camps in it as well. Time to adopt NBA rules.
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I think the NBA is unwatchable. It's awful.
 
I think that's more the success of marketing and branding than quality of the actual product. You think all the women wearing Curry, Lebron or Harden jerseys are there for the game? Or because they succeeded in marketing and branding a given cities team as the hottest show in town? One of my nephews has more Knicks clothing than I ever had for any team growing up. Kid has never sat and watched a whole game. But he likes the logo and recognizes the brand means something in certain social groups.

It's all 1 on 1's. Officiating is a joke, nobody everrrrrrrrr travels. The game just lost something from the 90's and early 00's. I feel the same for most pro sports to be honest, I just notice it the most with the NBA. It feels too commercial and like the focus was taken off the game
 
Excalibur said:
If you want to see what happens when you make no effort to use the dribble against a zone, watch what MSU did this weekend. Plenty of passes to the high post with little effectiveness.
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MSU's problem was that the guy at the high post was like a deer in the headlights. He was indecisive. You need a guy who can pull the trigger effectively for a shot, or quickly make the right pass to the open man depending from where the zone shifts.

They should have put Bridges at that position the entire game. Head scratching move by Izzo not to do so.
 
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Hamms30 said:
I think that's more the success of marketing and branding than quality of the actual product. You think all the women wearing Curry, Lebron or Harden jerseys are there for the game? Or because they succeeded in marketing and branding a given cities team as the hottest show in town? One of my nephews has more Knicks clothing than I ever had for any team growing up. Kid has never sat and watched a whole game. But he likes the logo and recognizes the brand means something in certain social groups.

It's all 1 on 1's. Officiating is a joke, nobody everrrrrrrrr travels. The game just lost something from the 90's and early 00's. I feel the same for most pro sports to be honest, I just notice it the most with the NBA. It feels too commercial and like the focus was taken off the game
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They stopped calling travels in the 90s.

It’s a terrible actual product. You are 100% on point about the marketing. Don’t forget China loves the NBA too. I hear they have a decent population over there.
 
intlzncster said:
MSU's problem was that the guy at the high post was like a deer in the headlights. He was indecisive. You need a guy who can pull the trigger effectively for a shot, or make the right pass to the open man depending from where the zone shifts.

They should have put Bridges at that position the entire game. Head scratching move by Izzo not to do so.
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Agreed. 3 guards outside, and bridges there.

It was painful to watch that kid work the foul line.
 
The NBA is hella fun to watch, with more talent than has been in it since it started expansion. They play great defense, can shoot better than they ever have, and the players no longer (by and large) play with hangovers. You guys are just wrong on this.

But to each their own, I guess.
 
tzznandrew said:
The NBA is hella fun to watch, with more talent than has been in it since it started expansion. They play great defense, can shoot better than they ever have, and the players no longer (by and large) play with hangovers. You guys are just wrong on this.

But to each their own, I guess.
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I prefer real sports, not sports entertainment.
 
tzznandrew said:
The NBA is hella fun to watch, with more talent than has been in it since it started expansion. They play great defense, can shoot better than they ever have, and the players no longer (by and large) play with hangovers. You guys are just wrong on this.

But to each their own, I guess.
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I much preferred the wired out of their minds cocaine days of the late 70's and early 80's. Bernard King! Marvin Barnes! Michael Ray Richardson! David Thompson!
 
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All these numbers hurt my head
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Here is the only number that matters:

::Waves hello at syrcausefan.com dummies::

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Love,
"The Fat Grateful Dead Dude"
 
Yeah, some of those idiots over at Syracuse fan saying hes using us as a stepping stone. I lol’d pretty hard at that one, who the hell signs a 6 year deal as a stepping stone...
 
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