Jason Evans

They try and use it to slow you down a little bit, to force you to play against something different than you usually see.

There are not a lot of teams playing zone nowadays.

So when they bust out that zone, it causes the opposition to sort of recalibrate exactly what they're running and how it all works.

They try and keep you off balance, make you uncomfortable.

They'll also throw a press at you at times.

I fully expect them at some point to try and –

get Duke uncomfortable by pressing us, get Duke uncomfortable by throwing zone at us, and then suddenly switching back to man-to-man.

And they're capable of doing all three of those different things.

They're also, the biggest thing that you'll notice in their metrics, they are an elite, elite shot-blocking team.

They have the fifth-best defense

block percentage in Division I. They block 16% of two-point field goals.

That's a huge, huge number.

But, Donald, there's a trade-off when you go for that many blocks.

The Syracuse is a terrible defensive rebounding team.

When you go for the block, it means you're often out of position for the rebound.

Syracuse is 300th

the country at defensive rebounding position they allow offensive rebounds on a third of missed shots against a duke team that's one of the top 25 offensive rebounding teams in college basketball watch for those second chance points that could be a huge key to duke having a big game against them you know it's interesting the the fact that they go for blocks

Yeah, exactly.

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