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johnlg00 writes:

in response to Ironcity:

What the article failed to mention was that only one player played inside. Its easy to sag when you ahve four players standing around the 3 point line while one guys bust his rump down low. Our zone offense was as creative as my sons rec teams against a zone

OK State basically played four-out-one-in the whole second half. The difference between the way they played and the way the Vols played it was that they had guys who drove the ball into the gaps while the Vols mostly stood around on the perimeter. The idea behind that strategy is to keep the middle open for drives and give the main inside guy room to work. If you don't space the floor properly, drive the ball to the basket, make the shots you get, and generally occupy the perimeter defenders so they can't drop down on your post man, then you get what happened to the Vols yesterday.

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