Youth Zone: 2-3 Base and the Shot It Gives Up
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Youth Zone: 2-3 Base and the Shot It Gives Up
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The base 2-3: X1 and X2 at the elbows almost touching hands, X3 and X4 a step outside each block and a little higher than X5, X5 in the middle of the lane. Why the guards start close together: the high post is the zone's soft spot, and two guards near the nail take it away before the ball moves.
Areas, not men. The guards own the top, both wings, and the high post; the forwards own the corners and short corners; X5 owns the lane. The deal: the zone gives up the long shot at the top and concedes nothing inside. Why that is a good trade at this age: the top-of-key three is the shot a twelve-year-old makes least, and the zone is five bodies between the ball and the rim for everything else.
1 passes to 2. On the flight X4 sprints up to the wing with high hands. Why X4 and not X1: X4 is closer on the catch, and the first job is to make the catch a contested one, so the offense never gets a clean look off the first pass.
X1 arrives and bumps X4 back down to the short corner; X2 drops to the nail, X5 slides to the ball-side block, X3 into the lane. Why the whole zone tilts: with the ball on a side the zone can take away the drive middle and the block, and force the offense to pass again. Every extra pass is the zone's advantage: it costs the offense time, and the shot clock is on the zone's side.
2 reverses the ball to 1 at the top. On the flight the zone recovers to its base: X1 back to the elbow, X4 up off the baseline, X5 to the middle. Why the reversal gets nothing: the ball at the top is where the zone is most set, and the only shot from there is the one the zone concedes.
1 swings it to 3 on the left wing. X3 sprints up on the flight exactly as X4 did. Why the left side has to be as fast as the right: a zone offense swings the ball to find the slow side, so the forward who is late is the forward the offense will attack all night.
X2 arrives and bumps X3 back down; X1 drops to the nail, X5 slides left, X4 into the lane. The picture is the mirror of the right side. Why the zone is comfortable here: 3 has no drive middle, no entry to the block, and X3 in the short corner, so the zone has forced another pass.
3 reverses to 1 again and the zone recovers to its base on the flight. Five passes and the offense is back where it started, with less clock. Why that is the whole point: the zone did not stop the ball, it stopped the ball from going anywhere that scores.
1 decides to shoot from the top and X1 steps out to contest with a hand up, not at him. Why a contest and not a closeout sprint: the zone wants this shot taken, contested and long; flying at the shooter opens the drive behind X1, which is the one thing the zone will not concede.
1 shoots over the contest. This is the shot the zone chose to give up, so the job now is the rebound, and that is why nobody watches the flight.
On the shot X1 boxes the shooter, X2 drops to the free-throw line for the long bounce, X3 and X4 find the nearest bodies on the blocks, and X5 holds the front of the rim. X5 gets it. Rebound, stop. Why the long shot is only a win when the zone rebounds it: a long miss given back to the offense is a second possession the zone just paid for.
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