5-Out play
5-Out: Against the 2-3 Zone
- Court
- Half court
- Length
- 8 steps
About this play
The same five spots against a 2-3 zone, an attack I learned from Coach's Clipboard's 5-out zone offense. Why it works without a post: a 2-3 is built to guard a big on the block, and with nobody standing there the back line has no one to lean on; the free throw line sits in the seam between the two guards and the middle defender, so a wing flash into it catches three defenders each assuming someone else has it. The rules go by where the ball is. With the ball on a wing, the wing opposite the ball cuts to the free throw line. With the ball at the free throw line, the corner on the ball side slips to the block and the corner opposite moves up to the wing that was just emptied. With the ball in a corner, the player at the free throw line cuts to the near block and keeps going to the empty corner on the other side. Counter shown: the zone matches up, the top defender dropping onto the high post and the low middle staying home, so the high post swings the ball to the opposite corner and cuts underneath to the block, because a zone that sends its top defender inside has left the baseline to one man. Nobody holds the ball; it goes side to side until a slide arrives late, because a 2-3 is only beaten in the half second after a defender is caught between two spots. The rules and the flashes are Coach's Clipboard's 5-out zone offense, and Coach Calls Timeout's video walks through the same flashes against a live 2-3; give them a look.
