[alfus21]

Dude, I know you know basketball better than this. How are you going to run any kind of effective zone against a team that can nail a 3 as soon as they cross the timeline. You can't run a 3-2 zone when all 5 guys on the court can shoot. You will get killed from the corner with a defense like that. We all know a 2-3 won't work. The most effective defense against a team like VMI is straight up man to man. No help side crap like we ran yesterday. The minute you go to help on defense, you are leaving someone else open for a 3. The best thing to do is to play straight up with no weakside help. The worst thing that can happen is a 2 pointer; and with a 3 point shooting team like VMI, I would be tickled with matching 2's instead of 3's.

I guess I don't know basketball better than this, because last I checked we gave up 111 points and lost, so it does not appear to me that straight man to man was the most effective way to play VMI. Like Panther Thunder said, maybe just switch it up during the game and see if it works, but gee make some sort of defensive adjustment of any kind. It couldn't have made it looked any worse that's for sure.