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Message: [QUOTE="bendm, post: 3270617, member: 9151"] some funny lines if you don't have access to the article: Buddy Boeheim, the team’s projected starting 2-guard and also the coach’s 19-year-old son. Subbing five at a time was also a new tactic Boeheim was testing out. “The last three years we only had seven or eight scholarship players, so we were playing a lot of guys 37, 38 minutes,” Boeheim says. The zone is a big reason why Syracuse tends to over-perform in the NCAA Tournament... Coaching the zone fits well with Boeheim’s analytical mind. The amoeba is by definition shape-shifting, and Boeheim, whose parents were both master bridge players, can be lethal in his ability to tweak it. and the best one: As a collective alignment, Boeheim’s zone has been one of the most formidable defenses in college basketball, but there is some debate as to whether it adequately prepares his players for the NBA, where man-to-man is far more prevalent. NBA scouts and executives frequently whisper this concern, although Boeheim says he has never heard a scout say that to him directly. “I don’t know where that comes from,” he says. “They can say they haven’t seen our guys play man-to-man, but that doesn’t mean they can’t play it. Jerami Grant is one of the better defensive players in the NBA right now. [U]Dion Waiters has become a very good defensive player.[/U] Mike Krzyzewski is one of the best defensive coaches in the country, and some of his guys have been terrible man-to-man defenders. James Harden is not a defensive player, but that’s not his college coach’s fault. Some guys just are not real good defensive players.” [/QUOTE]

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