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Your Zone Offense stops Working in a Game! What do you do…

For many teams having a Zone Offense is just part of a good plan in preparing for all the challenges of a game situation. In some circumstances, teams might even have two or three different offenses, or variations of offenses to deal will all the possible zone defence challenges anticipated.

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Defining Communication between Half Court Defenders

In every single training session at least at one stage or another, you will hear a coach emphasise the importance of communication. Communication is always one of the skills most spoken about by coaches to their players and amongst other coaches. One point of note though is a lack of clarity on exactly what a coach would like their players to say.

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Two Ball Screen and Roll Drill

The Two Ball Screen and Roll Drill provides a very good scenario for practicing one of the poorest tactical elements performed by screeners; Rolling to the basket. All too often in basketball games many advantageous situations go wanting because a screener fails to roll to the basket and fully exhaust the options available.

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How to Create a Mismatch in Offense

There are many different reasons why a mismatch in offense can be of benefit to a team. A mismatch is simply put, a desired scenario where the offensive player has an advantage over the defensive player. Most of the time people tend to talk about a mismatch being exclusively focused on a player’s size,

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Flex Offense: Screener Isolation

The Flex Offense is a favourite of many coaches and has become a highly developed offensive philosophy in its own right. A variation to add depth to the possible options available is the Screener Isolation Play. Within the Flex Offense the Screener Isolation Play places a player on one side of the floor and the rest of the team on the other.

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