Oregon might not bother playing any zone after Arizona big men Azuolas Tubelis and Oumar Ballo helped the Wildcats destroy Washington's 2-3 defense.
Bruce Pascoe Together, Oregon and Oregon State might offer the largest array of defenses any Pac-12 team will see in a single weekend of conference play: man-to-man attacks, straight 2-3 zones, matchup zones, 1-3-1 zones and presses sprinkled in everywhere.
The Wildcats pounded the ball through the zone into Azuolas Tubelis and Oumar Ballo, with both bigs carefully handling the ball and recording double-doubles. Instead of forcing shots when the zone collapsed on them, they often dished it off, with Tubelis recording four assists and Ballo collecting a career-high six with zero turnovers.
In the first matchup against Washington, Lloyd said Ballo wasn’t as mobile because of an illness he suffered earlier that week. “They did a great job of catching the ball and of playing with the concepts of the zone offense and looking down, looking opposite, looking back out top,” Lloyd said. “And then you have number advantages a lot of times against that zone when you get the ball inside. They’ve dropped three defenders into the paint, there's two defenders that cover the perimeter — and there's a lot of perimeter to cover.
“They basically manned us the whole game there and kind of had their way with us,” Lloyd said. “They mix in a few possessions of 1-3-1 zone, and traditionally they've done some pressing back to this kind of switching zone man-to-man deal, but they really haven't been doing that as much lately. Stanford tip time setArizona’s Feb. 11 game at Stanford will tip off at 6 p.m. Tucson time. The game, which had been listed as TBD until Tuesday, will be carried on ESPN2.
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