Cooper Flagg Adapts to Zone Defense Amidst Tense Game

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00:00I thought this was pretty cool. So obviously Cooper Flagg is running away with the player of the year trophy

00:06But he had to do something that he's not used to on Saturday, Scotty

00:09They flipped the zone because they were having so much trouble with Wade Forrest. He's not a kid of many words

00:16That's for sure. Here's him and Shire after the game on Saturday the game, you know, we stand that adversity

00:22What was the decision to go to zone to kind of slow down? They kept using the pick and roll to kind of attack the bigs

00:27The two things almost just your assessment. Oh, yeah. Well, we've we haven't played it. We've played it one possessional year

00:34we've kept it on our back pocket just in case and it's

00:38It's good to have a curveball. It just is and even if it's not maybe the best zone in the world

00:44He was he had no idea what he was doing and it looked like he's never played. Oh, have you ever played zone? Nope. All right

00:57You can watch him tonight against NC State at Cameron Indoor

01:02Those games are always better than you think they're gonna be these

01:06Conference games. That's a lot of wood. They're laying tonight, and I know they don't have their star player from last year

01:13But that's a lot of wood in a conference game. I'll tell you what top place to play Cameron Indoor, but flags a badass