It hasn’t happened often, but it has happened. Following a made free throw or occasionally after a timeout, the Pacers have once again taken to dropping back into a 2-3 zone. Mixed in as a gentle change-up to the team’s base scheme, the sight of regimented lines, even when deployed in a less heavy-handed manner, immediately elicit memories of last season, when the attempts to create chaos for opponents all too often backfired into being a hot mess of self-inflicted confusion. That said, despite retaining most of the same roster, the early returns already seem to suggest that those comparisons might not be quite fair.
To improve at zone, the Pacers need to get good at being boring
