Zone Offense – Functional Basketball Coaching

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

By Coach Riches Posted on July 29, 2014 Posted in Offensive Philosophy, Team Offence Tagged with Defence, Defense, Evaluate, Freeze, Freeze Dribble, Gap, Gap Dribble, Offence, Offense, Pass and Move, Relocate, Screen, Screener, Tempo, Zone, Zone Defence, Zone defense, Zone Offense

Screening will help create mis-matches and close to the basket scoring opportunities for a zone offense (Photo: Jeramey Jannene)

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 …

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Zone Offense: Interior Players Sealing on Ball Rotation

By Coach Riches Posted on December 13, 2013 Posted in Offensive Philosophy, Team Offence Tagged with Basketball, Center, Forward, Interior, Interior Player, Keyway, Offense, Post, Post Player, Power Forward, Zone, Zone Defence, Zone defense, Zone Offense

Fine-tuning a Zone Offense can be a very challenging task for players and their coaches. Many coaches tend to focus on the pattern of executing a team offense against a zone, rather than breaking down the individual roles within the …

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Zone Offense: Interior Player Set-up

By Coach Riches Posted on November 10, 2013 Posted in Offensive Philosophy, Team Offence Tagged with Against a Zone, Big Man, Big Men, Interior Player, Keyway, Offense, Player Position, Positioning, Scoring position, Zone, Zone defense, Zone Offense

A Interior Players role when facing a Zone Defence can make or break a team in regards to providing opportunities, or being a passenger within the Zone Offense. Too many times because of interior players do not understand the tactics …

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Box Offense: Basket Screen (Zone Offense)

By Coach Riches Posted on June 18, 2013 Posted in Basketball Plays, Team Offence Tagged with Basketball, Basketball Play, Box, Box Offense, Coach, Coaching, High Percentage Shots, Offense, Play, Strategy, Tactics, Zone Offense

The Box Offense lends itself to being effective against zone defences because of the condensed starting position of all players. This starting point means all defensive players are in motion from the start of the offense being reactive, rather than …

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Zone Offense: 4-1 Weak Side Flash

By Coach Riches Posted on May 24, 2013 Posted in Basketball Plays, Team Offence Tagged with 1 in, 4 Out, Basketball, Basketball court, Basketball Play, Coach, Coaching, Four Out, Offence, Offense, Play, Scoring, Team, Zone, Zone defense, Zone Offense

A good Zone Offense can be worth its weight in gold for team if they are able to utilise the play to perfection and therefore change the tactics of the opposition they are facing. The 4-1 Weak Side Flash Zone …

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