A master plan for defeating zone defense.With zone defense making such a strong come-back in modern basketball basketball, game played generally indoors by two opposing teams of five players each. Basketball was conceived in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA college in Springfield, Mass. , coaches are being forced to focus on their zone attacks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The most intelligent way to begin is by determining why the opponent is using a zone offense against you. The answer, we believe, lies in two, three, or maybe even all of the following points: 1. Because they cannot guard you man-to-man. 2. To protect a weak defender. 3. To confuse con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. the good man-to-man offensive teams. 4. To take the offense by surprise. 5. To get their share of rebounds 6. To facilitate the fast break (since the players are already in good positions.) 7. To avoid being charged with excessive fouls fouls see footrot. . 8. To protect your star players from fouling Fouling refers to the accumulation and deposition of living organisms (biofouling) and certain non-living material on hard surfaces, most often in an aquatic environment. This can be the fouling of ships, pilings, and natural surfaces in the marine environment (marine fouling), out. 9. Because you believe the zone is a better defense than man-to-man. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FUNDAMENTALS AGAINST ZONE DEFENSES: 1. Put the ball into a triple-threat position as soon as you catch it. 2. Perfect a quick jump shot. 3. Take a step toward or away from the basket basket filled with treats, representative of feast on Easter Sunday. [Folklore: Misc.] See : Easter and shoot. 4. Shoot off the dribble. 5. Pass the ball to the receiver's outside shoulder. 6. Look for the open man at all times (inside or outside the paint.) 7. Practice the short from every shooting position. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RULE FOR THE ZONE OFFENSE: 1. Each player must position himself in the gap between the defender and form equal-sided triangles. 2. Each player must always be able to have four passes available: diagonal, vertical, parallel and skip. 3. Good timing. If the defense moves fast, the offense must react instantly. If the defense moves slowly, the defense may react slowly. 4. High-post ball reversal reversal n. the decision of a court of appeal ruling that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and is reversed. The result is that the lower court which tried the case is instructed to dismiss the original action, retry the case, or is ordered to change its : the player at the H.P. should be able to pass the ball to the weak side. 5. Replace the man in from of you if he leaves. 6. The ball should always go from the outside to the inside and then back out again. 7. At least one of your two big guys should set up behind the defense to keep the zone "destructured" and low. 8. Set good low-post screens against a match-up Noun 1. match-up - the pairing of people or things as for comparison or competition; "it was a good match-up but the home team won"; "we need a matchup of the best teachers with the neediest schools" matchup zone. 9. Each player should always count "1" or call his name before acting. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RUNNING YOUR BEST PLAY SEQUENCE Diag. 1: 4 and 5 set up in the low post areas behind the last defenders. The guards (2 and 3) deploy in the gaps in a way that will enable them to form equal-sided triangles. 1 passes to 3 on the side, while 4 moves to the short corner (or outside if he can shoot) for the pass from 3, who then crosses to the opposite side. 5 moves to the elbow Elbow ignorant, blundering constable. [Br. Lit.: Measure for Measure] See : Stupidity on the ball side, 1 fills in for 3, and 2 fills in for 1.4 can now make three different passes: to 5 (elbow), 1(side) or a skip pass to 3 (Diag. 2). Diag. 3 (in sequence): 4 passes back to 1, who passes to 2. At the same time, 4 moves to the low post. 2 passes to 3, who can then hit 4 underneath or 5 stepping into the paint. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diag. 4: If the two defenders stay back, 2 will dribble toward the left defender's inside shoulder to keep him busy. That will force the back defender to stay with 3 and leave the area open for 4, who will come underneath for the pass from 3. The latter will also have 5 as an optional receiver. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diag. 5: 1 drives to the right, 3 moves to the corner, and 4 fakes a move to the opposite side and then goes to the elbow on the ball side. Meanwhile, 2 moves into the gap off the 3-point arc and sets up between the two defenders one pass away from the ball-handler (1). 1 now has four passing options: vertical to 3, parallel to 4, diagonal to 2, and skip to 5. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diag. 6: If 1 decides to pass to 3, 5 will move to the low post on the (ball side), and 2 will shift to the left and look for the cross-court pass from 3. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diag. 7: If nothing happens, 3 will send the ball back to 1, who will dribble to the opposite side with his left hand. At the same time, 5 will move across the lane to the low post. He sets a screen for 3 crossing from the baseline The horizontal line to which the bottoms of lowercase characters (without descenders) are aligned. See typeface. baseline - released version to the opposite corner. 2 drives into the paint and then comes out to the opposite side (top), while 4 fakes into the paint and comes back to the opposite elbow. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diag. 8: 1 will now have a choice of four different passes to the players in new positions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diag. 9: The same offense can be played against zone defense with half-court traps: 1 dribbles to a point just over the mid-line, 3 shifts to the corner, 4 moves into the center of the floor (one pass away) and 2 moves to a help position, ready to receive the ball. 1 now has four option passing targets: vertical to 3, diagonal to 4, parallel to 2, and skip to 5. Diag. 10: If the defense moves out to the left side, 4 will move into the key, 2 will shift to the corner, 5 will move into a help position, and 2 shifts to the near corner. In a trapping trapping, most broadly, the use of mechanical or deceptive devices to capture, kill, or injure animals. It may be applied to the practice of using birdlime to capture birds, lobster pots to trap lobsters, and seines to catch fish. situation, we want to act as swiftly swift adj. swift·er, swift·est 1. Moving or capable of moving with great speed; fast. See Synonyms at fast1. 2. as possible: 1 no has four passing options: parallel to 3, diagonal to 4, vertical to 2, and skip to 5. By Ted Rodopoulos, Master, Greece Greece, Gr. Hellas or Ellas, republic (2005 est. pop. 10,668,000), 50,944 sq mi (131,945 sq km), SE Europe. It occupies the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula and borders on the Ionian Sea in the west, on the Mediterranean Sea in the south, on Basketball Academy Former coach, National Team |
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