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Originally Posted by Insensitive PAP
If Rose wants to go small, we need a defense that takes risks and entices opponents to take jump shots. Cummard and Plaisted give us some good athleticism, and their strength is playing defense on the move. We should never, ever play zone. We are too short to play zone and effectively cover the wings, we are also too short to have our guys standing around trying to outleap opponents for rebounds. No rebounds, no fastbreaks.
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The major difference from when Schroyer was running it (and Rose for a couple years after--Goat is correct in stating that Rose was in charge of the D when Schroyer left and it was still good for a couple years and continued to resemble the Cleve/Schroyer D, however I believe Schroyer was the brains behind it and the further we got from him and the players he trained, the worse it got) and now is the help D. Schroyer's D's rotated very quickly. They were susceptible to good big men, but every D is. They helped inside and they rotated quickly. This year's team rotated like snails--which of course will kill you in a zone.