Zone Offense: Screen the Top Guard vs 2-3
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Zone Offense: Screen the Top Guard vs 2-3
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4 and 5 have moved up to the top of the key, a step outside the elbows, with 1 above them and 2 and 3 on the wings. Why the posts come up: the 2-3 guards areas, not players, so no one follows the posts to the top, and the guard they screen has nobody to hand 1 off to.
1 passes to 5 at the top. X2 turns to the ball and steps up to him; X1 stays with 1. 2 slides inside toward the block to clear the right wing and keep X4 low. Why 2 clears: the flare needs an empty wing, and a wing player standing there would bring X4 up with him.
4 steps across and back-screens X1, the guard who has turned to watch the ball. Why screen X1 and not X2: X2 is on the ball, and X1 is the only defender who can get to the wing 1 is about to flare to.
1 flares off 4's screen to the right wing. X1 runs into the screen; X4 stays low because 2 is on the block. The read: X1 is on his own, because the zone kept everyone else low when 4 came up. Why the flare is open: the one guard who could follow is screened and the forward is held down.
5 passes over the top to 1 on the wing and 1 shoots the open three. Score. Why the pass is from the top: the top guard on 5 cannot both pressure the pass and recover to the wing.
1 shoots. Score. Why this play is the first screen to teach against a zone: it is one screen and one pass, and it exposes the rule that zone guards never get help from behind.
Next trip, the adjustment: the top guards have learned to slide and switch, X2 jumping to the flare and X1 taking the post at the top. The offense resets with 2 on the right wing and 4 and 5 low. Why the zone switches: it is the only answer a two-guard front has to a back screen.
The counter, the X-Screen Lob: on the wing catch, 3 runs across the top to pick off X2 on his outside shoulder while 4 lifts to pick off X1, the two screens crossing like an X and leaving the middle open. Why x-screen both guards: a zone that switches one screen cannot switch two at once.
2 returns the ball to 1 at the top, then drops under the zone to put a back screen on X4, the right forward, while 5 waits on the right block. Why 2 screens the forward: the lob is coming to the rim, and X4 is the defender who would meet it.
2 arrives and back-screens X4, the right forward, with 5 waiting on the right block below. Why the screen is set before the drive: the forward has to be sealed before the middle is pulled up, or he takes the lob.
1 dribbles down the open middle between the screened guards and X5 steps up to stop the ball, which is the read. Why the drive is the trigger: the middle has to come up or give up the layup, and when he comes up the rim is empty.
5 cuts under 2's back screen to the rim with X4 sealed behind him. Why the cut waits for the drive: the middle has to be up with the ball before the rim is empty.
1 throws the lob over X5 to 5 at the rim, the counter's payoff. Why the lob and not the bounce pass: X5 is between the ball and 5, and the pass has to go over him.
5 catches and finishes at the rim. Score. Why the two plays are taught together: the flare beats a zone that does not switch, and the X-screen lob beats the one that does.
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