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zone ?
Posted by: Henri on April 24th, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.What about playing some zone defense tonight ?
In my opinion, this is the best way to defend the high pick-and-roll when the defensive big (Al) is moving too slowly to compensate the space difference which is created by the screen. I know the Jazz have played zero minute of zone this season, which was not the case last year with the second unit, but it may be worth try it at some points of the game. At least it may confuse the Suns in some of their possessions …
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im a little surprised we didnt try zone this year too. I also want to see the speed lineup of Tinsely, Harris, Burkes, Hayward, Favors again against phoenix
I was considering that too. The way to beat the zone is with outside shooting. The suns pack to much perimeter firepower so it would not be that effective though. they would just have to swing it around the 3 point line to find one of their 50 3 point shooters that were open.
Like the thinking outside of the box though.
It works on the Jazz because we are not a jump shooting team, even though we are improving in that area.
I don’t think you confuse Steve Nash, he always finds the open man. Supposing you play great defense for 22.3 seconds he will the open man after one defender just takes a slight misstep in the wrong direction.
This was asked to Locke in one of his Vokle chats a couple weeks ago and he said Jeffersn was to slow t guard a Zone.. But I am not sure how it would work out
That Steve Nash is their true play maker. Forget the zone. Man to man on Nash press him, and double team once he gets across court. Jazz defense is important in this game.
@PetBarney: it´s not a crazy idea that, u know? mix defense on Nash, and the rest of guys on zone, so we can double team Nash, and d on other guys, in fact free d behind the arc.
@guido. The “box zone” (not sure how you name it in the US) is something that has shown to be a very valuable alternative against a dominating player. Last year, Panatinaikos’ coach Obradovic elimnated the euroloeague favourite Barcelona by running a box on Navarro the entire game. However it’s not in the NBA’s coaches mentality to do so.
@Henri: In my country, we call “mix defense” that u call “box defense”. And yes it´s not very use in NBA, but I think that could be an option today, and a good one.