Whenever the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team plays in the NCAA Tournament, all the attention turns to the 2-3 zone.
Even though this year’s Orange zone isn’t as good, the unique defense continues to confuse opponents who aren’t familiar with its properties. As opposing offenses become more and more efficient as the tournament goes on, Jim Boeheim needs to rely on his trademark defense to hold the scoring at bay.
The way that the Hall of Fame coach has achieved that is by making key substitutions to drastically improve the performance of the zone. The most often change that Boeheim has made is to bring Robert Braswell in to play one of the wing positions.