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I must say I was impressed with Dallas zone defense in the finals and I think this is the way to go. I think we can afford to play Love at C if we play alot of zone on D. We have a lot of athletes with long wingspans who can cover lot of ground on D: Wes, D-Will, AR, Beas, Rubio. This allows Love to concentrate more on rebounding while he stays close to the rim as a C. Zone will help cut the penetration so Love's inability to block shots won't be a big issue. Beasley and Williams are not capable to chase people around the screens on the perimeter so zone D should be help too. I even think it will help Wes and Rubio.

I know it's not ideal but given our roster I think it's the way to go, it also helps us start our best players.

It's good to switch it up on defense for 10-15 minutes, but we won't need to focus on zone for the entire game.

The J Rocka wrote:It's good to switch it up on defense for 10-15 minutes, but we won't need to focus on zone for the entire game.

But when he roll with Rubio, Wes, Beas, D-Wll, Love lineup I think we better go zone. When you have RR, WJ, Webster, AR, Darko we can afford go man2man D.

Zone was successful in Dallas because Tyson Chandler could both guard the rim and get out to the perimeter. We would almost have to have dwilliams play that role if we were going to run zone with that lineup