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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2614347, member: 591"] I'll be interested to read his response - but I am almost certain "it depends". Aspects of defense are certainly about desire and effort - but I was around Rutgers, a defensive team, for years - and purportedly, teaching the proper execution of the "55" as well as her famous (at the time) match-up zone sounded pretty complex. One year, many years ago, at the urging of someone (I don't know who) Vivian focused more on offense than defense at the start of the season. Fans were impressed by the first couple of victories, but when RU lost a game 87 - 82 (approximately) that was the end of that. The next 2 weeks were spent on nothing but defense, RU never scored more than 60 in another game, but never gave up more than 60ish the rest of the season either. [/QUOTE]