10 Zone Attack Thoughts

10 Concepts To Think About When Looking At Your Zone Attack: 

1. Make the zone shift.
2. Wanting to make two defenders guard the ball
3. Shotfakes and Passfakes immediately improve the zone attack
4. Screening vs the zone gives the perimeters lots of opportunities
5. Trying to get the ball to the perimeters being defended by posts
6. Look for opportunities to attack the zone's weakest defenders
7. Must attack the wide seams of a 2-3 zone
8. Don't stand next to someone.  Get to a gap with your hands ready.
9. We get to determine who guards us
10. Ballscreen and engage a guard on reversal

Jim Larranaga's Seven Basics To Zone Attack

Jim Larranaga’s Seven Basics To Zone Attack

1. Beat it down the floor
2. Good ball/ man movement
3. Screening
4. Create Penetration/ passing, driving, cutting
5. Attack Inside, then Outside
6. Get to FT line
7. Get to Offensive Boards