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Monday, April 29, 2019

Basketball: TEN Easy Actions Against 2-3 Zone Defenses

Keywords: ACROSS, X, CLOCK, WHAM, BOOMERANG SLOT, BOEHEIM, BUCKS, WHEEL, CROSSBOW, GONZAGA

Where's the value? Show me something I can use! Getting ready to renew FastModel and I'm going through my 2-3 zone offense files. Here are a few. Find a couple you like. 

Zone defense works in youth basketball because young players have limited range, lack experience against zone, get intimidated, and don't practice it a lot. 

We can talk forever about spacing, cutting, screening, and passing...but you have to make shots. Nothing matters without shotmaking


Belabor DR FlaPS: Dribble into gaps (Draw 2), reverse the ball, FLASH to open spaces, Post up

Distort the Zone: Pass fakes distort east-west, shot fakes move zones north-south 

Two second rule. Move the ball within two seconds of a touch. 

Ten actions, not by priority. 


1. ACROSS. 1-3-1 set. Key components ball reversal into weakside low screen. 


2. X (MSU). Low bigs screen the high defenders and ball is reversed into a wing attack. 


3. Middle attack. 1-3-1 set. 2 cutters left (beginning of CLOCK rotation) or high post entry and cut (right). 


4. Wham. Relocate an elbow to screen the middle hard. In the NFL it's a tight end WHAM BLOCK. 


5. BOOMERANG SLOT. 1-3-1 into SLOT ball screen. 


6. BOEHEIM vs BOEHEIM. What would Syracuse's Jim Boeheim do against himself? 


7. BUCKS: Corner Pindown PnR. 


8. 5 WHEEL. "The ball is a camera." When 1 finds 5 at the NAIL, she has both wings and the block or a shot. 


9. CROSSBOW. 131 with 4 and 5 screening low bodies ("headhunt" means screen a body not an area) with 3 into the lane. 


10. Gonzaga "BALLSCREEN CORNER" - BC - back cut. 

Lagniappe: via Gordon Chiesa