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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 5183208, member: 21"] Hurley has deployed zone in the past, but every time he did they gave up points immediately and he would then abandon it. What makes this problematic is the team needs to practice it quite a bit gor it to be successful in a game, taking away practice reps improving their base m2m help D which has not been good during stretches of just about every game. It’s a good idea to drop a different D from time to time, so that teams don't get used to successfully attacking the primary defensive scheme. I think they should add a quick trapping type of half court defense every once in awhile throughout the game, but they're so prone to fouling where this type of D becomes problematic as well. Hurley and his staff do have a history of improving the team defense as a season goes on. Although improvement has been limited at best, let's see how things progress over the last third of the season. [/QUOTE]