tnyoug) a set man-to-man defense... Therefore, we shall not take
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added ‘print space to discuss this matter heree There are ways to
chart an offense through any défense, if the offensive tean is
both intelligent and crafty. For a coach to decry a team for using
any type of defense that does not violate the rules of the game,is
an admission of his own weaknesse
Too many basketball coaches teach rapid wovements of the ball
to beat a zone defense. . This is only part of the answer. There are
passing and moving lanes through a zone defense, and all players must
be on the move while the ball is being manipulated from place to
7 tne quite the same as traffic is moved in a congested zone. A team
By Sorting through a ‘Zone defense quite the same as it works through
& man-to-man defense, will win a fair percentage of its ganes.
Everett Dean, ccach of Stanford's N.C.AAA. chaspions of two
years ago, said that many of his contemporary coaches did not under-
stand how to preak through a zone defense. Kentucky defeated I1li-
nois Whiz Kids two years ago; and this year defeated Ohio State with
a combination. man-to-man dadegene defense. What one coach calls a
combination of man-to-man and gone, bts wey call something else.
A few vears ago, Coach Johnny Bunn of Hank Lusetti-Stanford
fame, was watching Jim Kelly's DePaul University work-outin Chicago
before the National Association of Basket Ball Coaches. A prominent’
coach remarked to Bunn that Kelly was using @ straight man-to-man

defense. Coach Bunn replied, "I use the same type of defense and I
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call it a combination of both." So it goes.