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Attacking Zones
By Shane Dreiling
GENERAL THOUGHTS
- Always look to fast break
against a zone. Teams that play zone
have a tendency to play poor transition defense. Try to score before
the zone gets set up.
- Look to attack on the third
side of the floor. Basically, get 2
reversals before looking to shoot, unless you have a wide-open lay-up.
- Move the ball and move people
against zones.
- Flatten the zone, and then
quickly reverse the ball to 3 people.
- Teach your players what a gap
is (space between 2 defenders) and
how to attack it with the dribble or a cut.
- Use stacks to create overloads
initally.
- Have some set attacks to get a
good shot against the zone.
- If you have a post player that
can shoot, step them out from the
high post or to the short corner to stretch the zone.
PERIMETER EMPHASIS
- Start behind the 3-point arc.
- Wing men stay below the top defenders in the zone.
- Be weak side ready. If the ball is on the wing,
opposite wing should be on an angle, not in line with the ball.
Have feet and hands ready to catch and shoot.
- Use the skip pass to reverse the ball, especially when a
post player is screening the back of the zone.
- Always look to drive the ball into a gap and kick out for open shot.
- Move the defense with pass fakes and shot fakes.
POST
EMPHASIS
- Start behind the zone.
- Post up the middle defender in
front of the rim.
- Screen the back defenders in
the zone.
- Flash to the ball. A key
teaching point is the ball moves first,
the zone moves second, then you flash between two defenders.
- Rebound the ball when a shot is
taken.
- Use the short corner.
- If the ball goes inside and you
don’t have a shot, look to pass
out to the opposite side of the floor to the wing spotting up or your
post partner.
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