Drive hack

Another question for you pro players.

If my opponent activates a group that is coming onto the board. And i play drive hack and reduce the thrust to 0. Does this stop the ship being deployed?

I asked this question at the UK games expo dropfleet tournament and the hawk guys(who where TOing) said you cant play a card on a ship thats not on the table yet.

But yeah. You can stop them at the edge of the battlefield. But they will arrive onto the table. They can not be stopped to move on.