Thanks coach. One comment: it would be a bit easier to watch if at least one team would be wearing same color. Maybe something to consider for the next videos? Greetz from Germany
Great video Coach, we as basketball fans love these on court breakdowns from such a great basketball mind. Every time I watch these types of videos and CourtCall my basketball IQ creeps up a little. I can honestly say that your breakdowns have made me a much wiser sports fan. Keep up the great work.
can u make dem wear like color uniforms next time u make a vid like this is hard to visualize the play when i dont know whos on the which team. other than that is great vid!
Eladrio RAU Well, if it's a private practice sure skins and shirts will be alright...but when you're making a public video on a public website, I don't think skins and shirts will be welcomed. :)
Horns plays are good for that, but my favorite play to beat it is the Petal Option..which you can get from the bulls play book. Double option from clippers play book is also good.
Great video. Would love to see some in game footage in future breakdowns as means of comparison. These slower breakdowns are good however they don't convey the speed of a real game.
Thank you so much coach nick, in Australia the 2-3 zone from where I'm from is basically the only type of defence they use. Defiantly gonna try. Once again thanks!
2-3 zone is so rare in the NBA. I've never seen it. At that level it would be too easy to break it down and (most importantly) you have the defensive 3 second rule so it's nearly impossible to keep a defender in the paint all the offense has to do is spread the floor run a side pnr and you're screwed.
Excellent explanation friend, your video helped me to understand better, you give very good information on your channel, you have helped me a lot, thanks for your contribution. greetings and I hope more topics like this.!
great vid. i think it would benefit from having the offensive and defensive guys wearing clearly different colours - just a suggestion for future videos! cheers
I like the dribble over and then reverse pass, but if the opposite guard is disciplined a lot of the time he wont follow you, leaving a long and dangerous pass past him to the wing. That also means the wing has to come up higher to give you an angle and that disrupts the offense. I prefer to use that dirbble and then go to the high post, since this makes the guards collapse and then he can kick either way, especially since he usually has a height advantage. Both work though
Coach, please take a look at last night's game on April 8th, Brooklyn @ Miami. Final play in the 4th quarter with 6 seconds left to go. Was Plumlee's contest on Lebron's shot a block or a foul? I HAVE TO KNOW!
thanks for posting this. I was playing last night, and it had been a long time since I had gone against a zone. felt completely out of sync and I just wasn't playing my game. I was setting up in the slot and hitting the high post, but I really stagnated once I got the ball there. I wasn't attacking the basket. I needed this reminder to help me out
I 100% love this video. I'm going to utilise the sets in our upcoming pre season tournament. (Results to follow!!!) I've been searching for and toying with hundreds of zone sets over the last few weeks and this suits my personel perfectly! Thank You!
This is a great video Coach Nick! Can you comment quickly on how to reset (in the first example) if that high post cut is covered? Who rotates back to the high post position if/when the ball is swung back around?
Coach I have a question. The passer who makes the initial cut, where does he go after he makes the cut? Because if these quick options are not available how does the offense progress to get other shots? Really like your channel, i'm a first year coach and this channel helped my team get in the playoffs!
Attack with a 2-1-2. On the pass to corner, high post flashes ball side block. Opposite corner flashes to high post. Opposite wing can look for skip pass or can basket cut on pass to high post for easy layup
Great video! A recommendation I have is to put jerseys at least on one side of the ball (for one team) just to clearly separate the players on each team to make it easier to view and understand! Still a great video and a great channel! I look forward to your next video.
Hi Coach, just want to confirm, the first dribble at the start is gap dribble right? Freeze dribble is when you dribble directly to a defense. I'm just confused.
Love your videos and thank you for posting them. Please spend $50 to buy 10 pinnies just so viewers will not have to expend so much energy and concentration trying to figure out who is on D and O. You will get more views and subscribers I bet.
Caoch I can't tell who's on offense and who's on defense because everybody's wearing different clothes. When you had them switch to a 1-3-1 I swear I thought 6 guys were on defense.
0:26 FREEZE DRIBBLE - attack the 2 by driving straight between them 1:20 DRIBBLE OVER PASS BACK 2:10 BASIC 5 MAN FUNDAMENTALS 1-3-1 Offense 4:04 Cutting #1 - SLOT A Feed the Slot player, who is about 10-12' from the basket *if not defended, attack for layup B Wing passer now cuts to basket - and out to the far corner?? C High Post now cuts, gets the pass for the layup 6:06 Cutting #2 - HIGH POST A Feed the High Post player, who is at the end of the foul line B Wing passer now cuts to basket - and out to the far corner?? C Slot comes out after cutting Wing for a pass from the High Post for a midrange Jumper
At the end there why would the defender follow the guard when he cuts without anyone rotating? Because that just broke the 2-3 zone. Otherwise another good informative video coach
wish you differentiated between offense and defense with dark or light coloured clothing, it's hard to keep track
8 лет назад
Great examples. Only one small detail: the cutter doesn't necessarily suck the defender in. He can be denied his cutting trajectory or even ignored and called for the rest of the defense so they know someone's cutting. It still works, but in a different way because, if the zone is performed properly, in either case the defender won't leave his space for the secondary cut to happen so easily. There's usually some misconception about zone defense. There's a lot of contact (sometimes even more than 1-1 defense) because you tend to deny cuts and take the contact instead of chasing the cutter. You don't just sit around waiting for people to shoot 3s.
tribute to Zo Hall of Famer 2014 or just a coincidence?
7 лет назад
Great vid, just a couple suggestions as we're taught how zone defense works pretty early in Europe. 1) Dark/White shirts to separate teams, please :) 2) The freeze dribble is cool, but in a real zone defense only one guard is supposed to attack the ball before the drive even happens. Even if he dribbles around, a switch will happen just as in a regular 1on1 defense. 3) We don't get sucked in by a cutter, we bump them. It looks like all we do when using a zone is moving around waiting for stuff to happen, but no. One guy will attack the ball handler as soon as he gets close to the 3-point line (even if it's not a box+1 zone) and everyone will pick the guy closest to him, trying to prevent them from cutting/driving comfortably and communicating all the time for cuts, screens, switched and all. So this form of attack might work against a very soft zone defense but most of that motion gets disrupted as soon as the cutters can't finish their move comfortably and people know how to rotate. In my experience, entering the ball through the high post is always the best option against 2-3 and then have your post man move the ball to either the corner, guard or low post depending on the space but most of the time it all comes down to have the whole defense collapse to one side, then use the extra space.
a lot of stuff please i want to learn more about basketball. it really helps me alot to work out on my game bballbreakdown is such a great channel. and now i can simply play my game not forcing so many shots and create offense to my teammates and defense.
I like the Kansas Jayhawks approach of quick passes all around the perimeter & skip passing, drag dribble from the wing 2 steps downward, as opposed to Top of Key freeze dribble. Coach Bill Self calls it "Hot Potato."
In our professional league, as well as the collegiate level, they play different kinds of defense, depending on the coach. From experience and observations in the amateur level however, from local leagues in every age group (18 below, 19-25, 26 above, you name it) to high school leagues and even to pickup games, it's almost always a 2-3 zone defense. A team would need several practices to get it in their heads that their primary defense would be something else, like a 1-3-1 zone defense, instead of the 2-3. I don't know how it all started, but for me it was a case of "everyone's doing it, so why don't I do it too"
BecomeB No need to be sorry haha. In pickup games it makes sense since it's really just 5 on 5 for the whole game. Sometimes yes, there are only 1 or 2 players really making the plays for the offense. But I think the main reason the 2-3 zone defense is used so much is because the 3 most often used half-court offenses I've seen during games are: 1) Slashing to the basket. 2) Passing to a man cutting in the middle. 3) Penetrating then passing to a man doing the backdoor cut. If there's anything I've learned about the 2-3, it's that its purpose is to minimize points in the paint. And this is only my opinion, having 3 defenders inside to get the rebound works well because the favorite play of most people here is the outlet pass for a fastbreak. Sometimes I'll see the guards already getting ready to sprint down the court as soon as the offense has attempted a shot. As for shooters, teams still have them every game. Having shooters on the floor usually means the defense, usually the 1 and 2, will be literally demanded (I've experienced this lots of times since I'm a 2) to close out quickly. This is especially true for pickup games, where the 2-3 is already wired into their heads and can't really afford doing another defense on the fly. In the amateur leagues, this is also true although sometimes the defense may resort to the 1-2-2 or 1-3-1 zone defense. The only time I've seen teams use the man-to-man defense is when they want to pressure their opponents. They'll also use full-court presses but the man-to-man D is a bit more commonly used.
BecomeB I'm just a player who likes to spend the weekend afternoons off by playing in pickup games, mostly to freshen myself from college academics. I haven't participated in leagues that much, mostly I'm a spectator and I'm 19, so if a certain team is running a certain offensive set, I can't really tell what it is exactly. Most of the plays I've picked up were from playing in pickup games. That flare screen you mentioned sort of sounds like what my teammates sometimes try to execute although I don't really understand it so I just end up standing in the corner (I sometimes end up open, although my 3-ball is quite inconsistent haha). Pretty interesting stuff though, I'll try and do things differently next time I play in a pickup game. Thanks a lot :D
Coach, awesome as always (Best. Channel. Ever) but maybe splurge on some pinnies... Keep 'em coming, more college! (sometimes hard to transfer NBA ideas into high school age sets)
Good vid, Coach. And I note you kept it simple. I would add a few wrinkles, though. One is to swing the ball to the wing and attack the bigger gap between the high guard and the forward on the baseline. In my experience in my college basketball days, the defense recovers quicker when you attack the two guys on top. I was a combo guard who found success attacking from the wing and kicking it out for baseline jumpers. The second offense that worked very effectively was what Rick Pitino did in Louisville versus Syracuse when they brought the slot guy on the baseline and threw lobs to him behind the defense. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NybYwAZk5BQ.html. Look particularly @1:25.12. As long as the high forward can pass, there really is no defense for that. I watched #4 Syracuse beat the then #1 Indiana with Cody Zoeller and Oladipo a few years ago, and watched Tom Cream waste Oladipo on top of the key rather than bring him off the baseline. They got the ball to Zoeller alright in the mid post, but the 'Cuse simply swallowed him up. Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OPlWUrG0AC0.html
Hey coach can you do a video on Help Defense on a 2-3 Zone? Like how the center and the 2 back forwards should rotate should an offensive player on the perimeter beat the defensive guard.
Coach, what about the point guard splitting the top either for: 1) a floater or a jumpshot from 10 feet?; or 2) kickout to the perimter shooter or 3-point shooter?; or 3) sneak a drop pass or bounce pass to a teammate who slides near the basket along the baseline?
hey coach, what do you think of a 1-4 high with a wing pass, followed by the near high post guy cutting to the basket, and the backside high post guy doing a flash to the near elbow. and the passer gives a top screen on the backside high defender for a cut to the top of the 3 from the other wing man?
I put in something similar to that this past week, only we did an entry pass to the wing, I had my ballside high post screen the ballside guard, passer cut to the corner. We faked the pass to the corner for the three, had my high post screener roll to the basket and flashed the other high post over for a quick turn and shoot.
