@pushal Matt tried to implement a 2-3 zone with either AJ and...back when Kendall Stephens played (2014/2015 season). He worked with Basil Mawby in the summer prior to that season, who has always been known to have a good 2-3 zone. I can't tell you what specifics he may have altered if any ...outside defending the triggerman. However, I don't recall Basil defending out of bounds on the baseline how he did it with AJ on the triggerman. That alone led to a last second defeat in Mackey by North Florida wiht a baseline jumper on west side by triggerman . Kansas State with Webber also shred the 2-3 zone where they attacked the "short corner" on left side against Purdue earlier that season. Matt apparently thought with the length he had that a zone would help, but it didn't.
Maybe it might have helped if it was not sooo wide? Matt spread the zone thinking the length could really make the half court a tough D, but it didn't and he soon abandoned it and went to man where Purdue picked up some wins. Anyone that doesn't now recall this can go to the archives and find out what I'm telling you is the truth if it somehow was forgotten. Now I don't recall him playing zone before or after that year, but he did try it. Now, if you or anyone think that is a key and he should try it again, that opinon will find some support from some in the forum...but for the record he did try to implement a 2-3 zone.
As far as a zone press...he as also tried a 1-2-1-1 or 1-2-2 press in the final seconds grasping for a possession. He most recently did that with Isiah Thompson either as a freshman or sophomore. It is not part of Matt's D inside a game, but as a last resort and so he has also had a zone press..."as a last resort" which almost every coach has used sometime. Last nights game was the only run&jump I think Purdue saw this year.
Used to have a video I could show to show the 2-3, but popularity hides many things on the net that will eventually get lost. STill, here is an article written on July 9, 2014 by the Star talking about the zone I mentioned
https://www.indystar.com/story/hs-b...ith-matt-painter-about-zone-defense/12415323/