Youth Zone: Skip Pass, Both Directions
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Youth Zone: Skip Pass, Both Directions
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The zone is already shifted to 2 on the right wing: X1 on the ball, X4 in the short corner, X5 on the block, X2 at the nail, X3 alone in the lane. Why the offense wants the skip now: the whole zone is on one side, and the left wing looks open.
2 skips the ball across to 3. On the flight X3 runs out of the lane with high hands and X2 sprints off the nail toward the ball. Why both go at once: the forward is the only one who can be there for the catch, and the guard is the only one who belongs there; the zone's advantage is that the ball is in the air long enough for both.
X2 arrives and bumps X3 off: X3 drops to the left block, X5 crosses the lane, X1 drops from the right wing to the nail, X4 slides to the weak-side rim. Why the picture is the wing shift mirrored: one set of slides, run the other way, so the skip bought the offense nothing.
3 passes to 5 in the left corner and the zone contains it: X3 out with no baseline, X5 fronts, X4 to the rim, guards sink. Why the zone keeps forcing the corner: every pass out of a corner is long, and long passes are the ones a zone deflects.
5 throws it back to 3 and the zone recovers to its left-wing picture on the flight. Why the zone concedes this pass happily: it goes away from the rim, and X3 is back in his short corner before the catch.
3 skips it back across to 2. Now X4 runs out and X1 sprints over, the mirror of the first skip. Why the second skip is no better than the first: the zone is not reacting to a trick, it is running a rule, and the rule is the same on both sides.
X1 bumps X4 off, X5 crosses back, X2 to the nail, X3 to the weak rim. Two skips, two bumps, and 2 is looking at the same picture he started with, with less clock. Why that is the zone's advantage: the offense spent its best weapon and got the ball back to the wing.
2 passes to 4 in the corner and the zone contains it: X4 out, X5 fronts, X3 to the rim, X1 sinks, X2 on the high post. Why the zone pushes it to the corner every time: it is the one spot where the offense has the fewest passes and the zone has the most hands.
4 is forced to throw a long pass back out to 1 at the top with the clock almost gone, and the zone recovers to its base on the flight. Why the long pass is a win: it is the pass most likely to be deflected, and even when it is caught, the ball is as far from the rim as it can be.
1 has the ball at the top with no clock, X1 stepping out to contest, and nothing inside. Contained. Why the possession ends here: the zone forced two skips, two corner catches, and a long pass, and the offense never got the ball below the free-throw line.
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