fdennisj wrote:
Regarding the zone, it's rare at this level for a team to play so simple a 2-3 zone without matching up, or setting traps in the corners or sidelines.  The zone was less complex than many I have seen in High School. 

Yes, we got killed on the boards, but at least a few times I watched our guys occupy all three key rebounding spots, left hoop, right hoop and front hoop, and still fail to get the rebound.  It tells me that it's more than just boxing out, it's anticipating and moving quickly to the ball.  It's also about putting a body on people, and holding or expanding your rebounding "neighborhood" when the ball goes up.  I think we had position many times, but got pushed under the basket; which is just about being more physical.  The refs really called almost nothing in this game; so the more aggressive team was going to win most of those battles.

Agree completely here with the zone simplicity.  And yet we're still making mistakes in the simplest form of the zone...

From what I saw, we weren't getting pushed under...I'll watch more going forward.  I 100% agree with the other half about putting a body on somebody and expanding the rebounding neighborhood part completely and that we lost a lot of boards there.

Interesting comments on the more use of zone this year than ever buckwheat.  I haven't been watching nearly as much college men's bball this year (more women's than usual however.  I like the enthusiasm better as well as that the women play much more a team game and are a lot less selfish).  I'll start paying more attention...

To answer the question on sets, I can recall a few from the PSU game alone.  It wasn't end-game or key moments, but after pretty much every media timeout as well as the use-it-or-lose-it timeout we seemingly ran a successful set at PSU.  Other than that...I'm really struggling.  Down four late against NJIT when Ferry burned his last timeout the Dukes drew a the fourth foul on a NJIT player, but McKoy failed to capitalize at the line.  That's about it.  The last one that I recall prior to that is going wayyy back to the OT win over JMU when we ran a set to get Jeremiah a layup (though I think JMU's coach called timeout to set up a defense, not Ferry to set up our O...but I may be completely wrong on that by now).  Yikes...it's bad if I'm struggling this bad to recall sets that were successful in critical situations...