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are a few things to keep in mind when facing such
defenses.
First one is that just because they are manning your best player, which
is usually always done to a perimeter player when using such defenses,
that you can not still go to that player and or only have to use him
for a decoy. That is bunk and will only through your offense and your
team chemistry out of whack which is the point of the defense.
Second thing that needs to be remembered is that with some patience and
ball reversals this junk defense will break down. Third thing to
remember is that whenever screens are set upon the man being manned up,
this will create confusion and a need for other guys to help out
throwing the zone portion of the defense way out of walk and most teams
do not react well to this with any kind of adjustment. The guy and or
guys who will be open, often will be the guys setting the pick for the
man being manned up and or guys following behind in the path, in the
"space" left by the manned player when a pick is set. I will explain
that further.
Fourth
thing to also keep in mind is the absolute necessity of dribble
penetration by the other four guys against the zone, be it a box shape
or a diamond shape. Here is an easy continuity offense that gives you
the things and the position to attack a classic box and one defense.
Whenever you are faced with a box and one the attacking formation you
want to achieve either in placement of players and or of movement of
players is a 1-3-1, though it need not be just the classic from the top
of the key angle that this can be and or needs to be achieved.
You start out with your 1 man splitting the two top defenders of the
box zone with the ball at the top of the key, a step or two above the
top of the key perhaps. Your other two players will be at the wings,
free throw line extended outside of the three-point line and about two
steps down from this line along the three-point line towards the
baseline. This puts those two guys just a bit below the site line of
the top two defenders in the box zone and immediately, along with the
point puts pressure on them to keep track of the ball and those wing
players. Spread out that zone from the get go. Your player who is being
manned, most likely your 2 or 3 man will start out in the corner,
either side of the court, outside the three-point line.
Your 5 man will start out on the block on whichever side the man in the
corner is on. Here is the basic continuity motion. The point guard
dribbles the ball to the opposite side of the corner man. He passes the
ball to that wing. As he dribbles it that way, the post man who is on
the same side as the corner man steps out, sets a back pick on his man
and the corner man runs baseline, low baseline behind the two bottom
defenders in the box zone to the ball side corner.
He obviously, if open looks for the shot, but most likely the guy
guarding him whom has been screened will yell for help. He will fill
out to the corner. As soon as he sets the pick the post man will roll
right back into the middle of the key and with the dual action of the
guy being manned cutting baseline, free along with the post man rolling
right back into the middle of the key, middle of the box zone really
creates some nice opportunities, especially for the post man. If the
post man is not open the wing passes the ball to the corner to the guy
coming baseline and the post man then drops back down to the post on
the ball side.
With the ball now in the corner, the three outside men will have these
cuts and rotations to make. The Wing player who passed the ball to the
corner man as he came baseline after the screen will cut straight
across the free throw line, looking all the while for the chance to
step into the middle of the zone box for a quick pass. He will then
fill out to the opposite side wing. The point guard, as soon as the
wing gets to the opposite side of the free throw lane on his cut will
then cut right to the middle of the free throw line, a step below the
free throw line, then bust straight out replacing the wing who has just
cut across the free throw line and will receive from the corner man a
pass.
The guy who was on the opposite wing, will simply float back up towards
the top of the key replacing the point guard. Point guard then, after
getting the pass from the corner man passes the ball to the guy filling
the point guard spot who will then pass the ball to the opposite wing
and the post man steps off the block, against setting a pick for the
corner man to run baseline again, repeating the continuity.
Their needs to be a couple of things kept in mind. The man running
along the baseline once in a while needs to cut high off that post pick
and into the middle before filling to the opposite corner, and when the
ball is at the top and on the wings those players need to, just like
against any zone, dribble drive and pinch the seams on the zone. Also,
when the ball is in the corner and the three outside players are making
their cuts, the skip pass from the corner over the zone to the opposite
wing filling out will be open after a reversal or two.
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