91.   One passionately debated topic is the effect that allowing zone defenses would have.

92.   Or Temple and its petrifying match-up zone defense?

93.   One was by its Swiss cheese zone defense.

94.   One reason a change is unlikely is a consensus that the league is worried its superstars would be hampered by zone defenses.

95.   Others try to keep him in front of them and punish him on the tackle, in effect running a zone defense against one man.

96.   Portland wisely went to a zone defense in the second half as the Waves clanked shot after shot and fumbled away the ball.

97.   Perhaps the biggest confusion of all was the tougher illegal-defense rule to combat zone defenses.

98.   Point guard Brevin Knight is frustrated with zone defenses which dare him to score from the perimeter, instead of with penetration.

99.   Rick Fox shifted to shooting guard to take Mashburn, and Jackson ordered up heavy doses of zone defense.

100.   Single-elimination pressure, zone defenses and dome stadiums often make for difficult shooting environments.