Not starting another "zone" debate but kansas had trouble when Oregon was switching between man and zone. Just saying.
Kansas Came Back To Earth
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Mr. Lion, don't bring up that "Z" word around here partner, you'll get your pinkie Whacked....lol
Don't let the builderbobs, Dakota Girls, Doo Dah Day's, tjreese's, etc. of the board know that. There's no way occasionally mixing in signficantly different offensive and defensive schemes within the same game would ever help a program like Purdue's have better end-of-game or end-of-season results. It's simply illogical!
Now the 360 dunker (Vick) and his teammates, coaches, and fans know what Purdue's players, coaches, and fans felt like after their last game: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/photos/_/id/2305/photoId/6216924
It's ok to start one. It's never really been finished. Those that know anything about basketball or any other sport know you don't tie your hands by sticking with only one method. Switching up defenses just makes sense. You have to take what your opponent gives you. When your opponent has superior athletes a zone helps negate that. It's only debatable when your coach won't adapt. Painter is a good coach. If he would learn to adapt, he could be a great coach.
Someone pointed this out in another thread and I forget where, but that wasn't the case for Butler against UNC.
The key point people we'll say that are "against" zone is that you have to have the personnel to run it to begin with. Plus let's be honest, we had far greater things to fix first as opposed to changing defenses in the middle of a season.
And one other thing we learned this season, is that Painter does "adapt" to what is given him as we saw when he made some great game adjustments that brought us back against teams like ND to where we could win.
Plus we have to remember, he recruited players based on the rules from not long ago and based on the recruits coming in, he's adapting to those changes now. It just takes longer I think at Purdue because we had probably a more "blue collar" (if that makes sense) type stigma about us but I think even that is changing.
Painter however does need to learn to adjust in-game better and I think he will. We saw him do it like I said this season, just not consistent enough yet.
The way Kansas had anything falling through the hoop they threw up against Purdue that night the only difference if we had played zone would have been even more 3's falling instead of the 2 pointers.... It was Kansas's Offense that was " in the zone" that night against Purdue and nothing was stopping them....Not so much against Oregon.
