RE the zone, you have to remember that learning a zone comes with a lot of failure. Even last year, Hardy wanted to drop the zone they were doing because it wasn’t working but the players asked to keep it a little longer and it eventually started working well enough to be used.

A new defensive scheme is never going to work right away. The guard-Harden-from-behind method back in 2019 didn’t start working until G3, but it did work