text: should zone defenses be banned to allow more scoring and to make the game more faster paced?   i like the concept of zone much more then man. it forces the players to practice and get better on their outside game.   it also makes it harder for each team to get offensive and deffensive rebounds since all of the people in the paint at once. otherwise, having a really big guy like yao or shaq wouldn't really matter cuz it would just be like a one on one. too easy, more people fightin for the ball make the game more exciting.   plus, if everyone had to go to man, the excellent pointgaurds in the league would have no trouble getting past their deffender and that would tempt them to be more of a ballhog. while talking about ballhogs and zone, zone asks for more passes then man and that usually helps a team get more open looks outide  so overall, i would stick with zone, it has been working pretty good so far.