Benjamin Crick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just to point out that if you are playing a flat 4/ flood defence then
>you are stifling open offence and showing rather poor spirit. you are
>taking advantage of the smaller space just as the person jumping is.
how can you say either is in bad spirit, when they are both in line with the
word, and the spirit, of the rules? and surely stifling open offence is
desirable for the d team?
i enjoy playing against a four-man zone defence, it requires faster
reactions and disc skills than outdoors ever does.
i can't see what people are complaining about: if it's an effective form of
defence it will encourage greater skill and inventiveness from the offence,
which has to be a good thing.
i'd like, if i may, to draw a comparison with basketball, in which the
defensive team crowds into the key, forcing the attackers to either use
speed and skill to pass and move inside, or improve their shooting accuracy
to score from range. these are in some ways parallel to ways of breaking the
zone.
thankfully, in ultimate a player jumping in who gets impeded by a defender,
but still scores, doesn't then get another chance with a free throw for
"drawing the foul".
ed
groove, japan.
and anyone who wants me in the UK this summer. wooohooo!
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