Zone Offense: Ball Screen the Zone vs 2-3
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Zone Offense: Ball Screen the Zone vs 2-3
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Schultz's alignment: 1 top, 2 and 3 on the wings, 4 and 5 in the short corners behind the zone. Why both posts start in the short corners: they are behind the forwards' line of sight, and the one that sprints up to screen comes from where the zone is not looking.
1 dribbles at the right wing, dragging X2 with him, while 2 makes a shallow cut up to the top. Why the dribble-at: it makes X2 guard 1, so when the ball goes back to 2 at the top, X1 has to come across to take it.
1 passes back to 2 at the top and X1 steps up to guard him. As the ball is in the air, 5 sprints up from the left short corner and sets a ball screen on X1's left side. Why the screen is set on the flight: it arrives as X1 arrives, before he is set.
As the ball arrives, 5 sprints up from the left short corner and sets the ball screen on X1's left side. Why the screen comes from behind the zone: X1 never saw 5 leave, and a screen a defender does not see is one he runs into.
2 attacks off the screen to the left and gets downhill. 4 slides along the baseline to the ball side behind the zone, 3 drifts to the left corner, 1 fills the right wing. The read: X5 steps up to stop the ball. Why: nobody else can, because X1 is screened and X3 is held low by 3 in the corner.
With X5 up on the ball, 4 steps from the short corner to the rim behind the zone. Why 4 is open: the middle left the rim to stop the drive, and the forward on that side is in the corner with 3.
2 passes to 4 at the rim. Why the pass is on time: the middle is up with the ball and the forward is in the corner, so the window is the one count before X5 drops back.
4 lays it in. Score. Why this is Schultz's go-to: a ball screen makes a zone defender leave his area, and the area a middle defender leaves is the rim.
Next trip, the adjustment: the zone has seen it, and this time the middle comes up early to meet the screener as he rolls, with the forwards pinching. The offense resets: 2 at the top with the ball, 5 back to the short corner, 4 to the right short corner. Why the zone does this: it is trying to keep the ball and the roller in front of X5 at once.
1 passes to 2 at the top and the zone sets with X5 a step higher than before, ready to meet the roller. Why the ball goes to the top: the screen comes to the ball at the top, and the zone has to show its adjustment there.
5 sprints up and screens X1 again, the same screen from the same short corner. Why run it again: the counter needs the zone to show its adjustment, and it only shows it against the screen it adjusted to.
This time X5 steps up early toward the screener's roll and X3 pinches to the lane before 2 has even come off the screen. The read is X5's early step. Why the early step is the adjustment's weakness: a middle who comes up early has lifted himself off the baseline.
The counter: 2 drives off the screen, 5 short-rolls into the lane and seals X1 behind him, and 4 runs the baseline from the right short corner to the left short corner, behind the lifted middle. Why both: whichever one X3 takes, the other is open, and X5 is up with the ball.
X3 takes 5's short roll in the lane, so 2 passes to 4 in the short corner behind the lifted middle. Why the short corner is open: the middle is up with the ball and the forward is on the roller, and nobody is left on the baseline.
4 catches and scores from the short corner. Score. Why the counter does not need a new play: the ball screen always makes two defenders leave their areas, and the offense simply fills both.
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