Re: Zone defense

["pmaurice" <damekmo@teleport.com>]

Maybe someone can help me here. Did Pitino ever hire a coach to help him
specifically with defense. Didn't he just "handle" it himself?

Paul M.


> Do you guys think our defense is so dramatically better statistically
> because of a change in coaching system or because of a personnel upgrade
> Pitino wasn't privy too (Strickland and rookies Kedrick and Johnson...plus
> the maturity factor all around the roster)? Of course, it would seem to me
> that Bowen, Griffin and Stith etc. were roughly just as competent on
> defense as Strickland and Eric Williams. But there are unrelated
> circumstances like the new zone rules, for those who don't want to blame
it
> all on Pitino.