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Huge myth - Zone was not played before the 2001/02 season.

1. "Last season, Jordan had to overcome the harassment of zone traps and double and triple-teaming"
New York Times, 1987

2. "They`ve used zone traps; they`ve put two, three and sometimes four defenders on him"
Chicago Tribune, 1987

3. ''My concerns are that more teams are going to the trap, 'which ultimately ends in a zone defense... I noticed that Chicago has adopted a half-court that L.A. has been using so successfully and it ended up in a zone defense"

'When you play New York, you have to prepare yourself because they have so many different traps.''
Chuck Daly, 1988

4. The assumption that zone defenses are not played in the NBA is false. The rules allow for full-court zone pressure, andbecause defenses are permitted to aggressively double-team the ballanywhere on the floor, teams play de facto zones in the frontcourt,too. To one degree or another, every NBA team uses some type of zone.
Sports Illustrated, 1990

5. "Our teams are zoning now. Rule or no rule. We're not allowed to use the word `zone' but it's a zone.''
Dick Motta, 1996

6. "They (Seattle Supersonics) play a zone defense. They shove you in a corner and they trap you at half-court and they run off and double-team while you're dribbling the ball. It's a legal zone but they have a heck of a good defense."
Phil Jackson, 1996

7. "I don't think Seattle is going to put Gary Payton on Michael Jordan. We like that matchup because he'll get in foul trouble. In a zone defense like Seattle plays, they're just going to send him some way where they can double-team him all the time."
Phil Jackson, 1996

8. Utah plays the best zone in basketball. They play a 2-1-2 with five guys with a foot in the paint 90 percent of the time."
George Karl, 1996

9. "A lot of good defensive teams are playing nothing more than a disguised zone. The Bulls, the Sonics, a couple of other teams do it." - Antoine Carr said the chief problem with the illegal-defense rule is that coaches know refs won't call it every time they see it.

"I asked one of the referees in Seattle, `If there were 21 illegal defenses, would you call all 21?' " Carr said. "And he said he would, because if he didn't the league would be all over him. But it never happens. Now put yourself in the same situation as a coach. If you know the most they are going to call it is four times a game, wouldn't you start playing it after awhile?"
Desert News, 1996

10. "Zone was always in there. It just weren't called. It was always in there"
Wilt Chamberlain - This same principle applies to the 80/90s era

More proof that the supposed "introduction" of zone did not make a big difference

In the 46 games that Jordan played in 01/02 before the injury, he averaged
25.1 - 6.2 - 5.3 - 1.5 - 0.5 on 42% when zone was officially put in the rule book
points - rebounds - assists - steals - blocks

Tracy McGrady was the only player to average at least 25-6-5 by the end of the 01/02 season

Jordan's numbers were also improving as the season went on.

In his last 20 games up to the injury he averaged
27.5 - 6.4 - 5.2 - 1.3 - 0.5 on 44%

In his last 10 games up to the injury he averaged
29.7 - 6.6 - 6.1 - 1.2 - 0.3 on 47%
http://nobodytouchesjordan.blogspot.c...

It was only after Jordan's injury that his numbers and team record went down