State was spread out from Alaska to Hawaii for the entire 2nd half.
This is the common denominator for a coach who refuses to believe in an active zone.
The ensuing points about what might have come with Yurt, etc. are speculative but I agree with the sentiment. We seem allergic to zone, and UNC is the perfect type of team to do it against. The typical argument against zone is the rebounding, but we couldn’t have done much worse. I think I read that on every UNC miss other than one in the second half they got the rebound. So they either scored, or got the rebound on every possession that wasn’t a turnover. We just can’t win that way.
The thing is that there are zones that fit our philosophy like the 1-3-1. Get a good trap going with that, and it’s a pretty nasty defense, especially with a long player like Yurt in the middle and a stat stuffer like Dorn on the baseline. A zone doesn’t have to mean passive.
Want more active ball pressure? Try a diamond and 1 or a triangle and 2. Markell on the ball with a zone behind him would be something to see. Man I miss V.
Hopefully we see some zone in year 2……….
