RE: Valpo Game

[Brad Holdheide]

Speaking of that, any further word on the potential of moving to the Big
East next year versus 2005.  I know I read several weeks ago that there was
push to make this happen.  Did that fall dead or are they still working on
trying??



-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Wedinger [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:04 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Valpo Game

When UC goes into the Big East, they'll get to play one of the best zone 
defenses in the country at least once a year.  Syracuse almost exclusively 
uses a 2 - 3 zone defense which gave teams fits last season in the NCAA 
tournament.

> From: Brad Holdheide <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
> Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Valpo Game
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:59:44 -0500
>
> <snip> " I hope so, too, but I think it takes more than that.  There are
> specific techniques for attacking a zone (overload low, overload high, skip
> passes, ...) that I don't recall seeing UC use much."
>
> I don't recall UC EVER doing any of this in Huggins tenure.
>
> <snip> " They tend to pass it around the perimeter and occasionally try a
> normal post-up and inside-out pass. "
>
> That to me sounds like the typical UC attack of the zone.  If Huggins has
> one weak point, it's coaching our offense against zone defenses.  This has
> been our downfall as long as I can remember.  98/99 - Lost 4 games that 
> year
> including the tourney all to zone defenses. 99/00 - Kenyons senior year,
> lost to Temples (at home) and Xaviers zone defense.
>
> UC will simply need shooters (Bobbitt/Williams) or slashers (White/Kirk) to
> beat the zone cause I don't think we'll coach our way past the zone.

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