It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in appearing like you’re a good coach when all you’re really doing is putting every player in the limited area that the opposition can shoot from and instructing them to stand there. Players look organized on the court, the zone is effective, the opposition struggles to score, etc. When your team runs a zone, you look like a much smarter coach simply because it takes advantage of the offensive team’s major weaknesses. I’ll openly admit that I had this exact feeling when I first started coaching. To keep the players and parents happy.Īs you can see from that list, not all reasons are negative reasons.Ģ. To keep players from leaving their team.ĥ. Here are a few of the reasons why coaches want to win:Ĥ. The reason for why coaches want to win can vary greatly. This is the number one reason why coaches use zone defense in my opinion. In my opinion, there are three main reasons why coaches implement a zone defense in youth basketball.Īnd, surprisingly for an article completely against zone defenses, they’re not all terrible reasons.
Now that you understand how it works, let’s talk about why coaches use it… When the offensive players aren’t physically strong enough to make this pass, it allows the defense to flood one side of the court without needing to worry about shooters on the other side.ĭoing this makes it even more difficult for the offensive team to find gaps in the defense to penetrate.
To put it simply, a ‘skip pass’ is a pass made from one side of the court to the other ‘skipping’ other offensive players. Young players don’t have the strength to make this skip pass. Coaches use zone defense because it flat out works against young teams and players. Zone defense is incredibly effective at a youth basketball level. If there’s one point I’m not going to argue in this article, it’s this: Why Zone Defense is Effective in Youth Basketball I’ll mostly be referring to the 2-3 zone defense for this article since that is by far the most popular zone to play at a youth basketball level. So I decided to create this post that shares with you why zone defense is effective in youth basketball, why coaches use it, how it’s hurting the game, and also to answer any arguments that coaches in favor of zone defense have.
If the defense plays close to the ring at all times and doesn’t challenge the shot (like most youth teams do), these strategies become incredibly hard to implement.
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I wrote a post on how to beat a 2-3 zone defense not too long ago, but admittedly, a lot of the strategies require that the defense is stepping out and respecting the outside shot (I’ll talk about this a lot throughout the article). Obviously, that wasn’t my whole reply, but it was the overall thought of the email I sent back in response. “Pray that your team makes outside shots.” They have much taller players than we do and they barely ever leave the key on defense. This week we’re playing against a team that runs a tight 2-3 zone all game. A coach sent me an email last week that said this (summarized):
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