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Here comes a semi-related tangent:

In Indiana, high school basketball is played without a shot clock. Lots of people here hate zone defense. If you haven't lived here this probably won't make sense to you, but just ake my word for it. Old men will sometimes start fights at pickup games if someone tries to play zone.

Every couple years some HS coach will decide that they are going to going stall rather than face a zone defense. They instruct their PG to hold the ball until the other team comes out of the zone defense. The opposing team never does so they just stand there for an entire quarter before taking the last shot. The process is repeated in quarters 2 and 3.


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That happened to me in a pickup game against girls. At ND, there's a large coed basketball tournament, and usually girls teams and bad guys teams just get drunk and have fun in the first round. Somehow we played a serious girls team, and not wanting to kill them and actually have to move on defense, we just played a zone and gave them any jump shot they wanted. Halfway through the game, their point guard refused to bring the ball up the court until we switched to man to man. After about a five minute standoff with us just standing there and her team trying to talk sense into her, we finally switched to man, blocked them like 4 possessions in a row, and then switched back to zone. In conclusion, Indiana is strange.