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Get the ball to my tallest player around the top of the key or free throw line and let them dish or drive.
Please tell me you are coaching 8U basketball. Whatever you do record it and post it here.
Same. Let the defense start respecting the man in the middle and open up the kick for your shooters. Quick ball movement and pass fake/penetration are key.
Thanks. Just wondered if anybody had any thoughts. We’ve never had any issues with it but for some reason this year, just haven’t got good shots enough.
We are small. My tallest player is isn’t tall but she is my tallest player.
Kinda hard to explain without a whiteboard but I'll try. I like to have my two guards up top and my 4 and 5 on both the low blocks. I have the 3 run the baseline, getting screens to the corner and take a pass from one of the guards. That player need to be a good shooter and decision maker for you because they are either going to have that shot or the defender guarding the low post and or the defender is going to jump out on him.
Of course if it is as simple as the defender guarding the post jumps out, a quick pass to the post. If one of the defenders from the top crash down fast, I have my big on that side flash to the top of the key to take the easy pass. That big now has three option, shoot, drive it or pass it to the other big.
I tell the big on the other side to flash to the spot left by that big, they should have their defender on their back and a good low post position to either take the pass from your big at the top of the key or get an offensive rebound.
I wish I had a way to show it, it would probably make a lot more sense seeing it than me trying it explain it after a couple shots of Henny.
Thanks. This is what I was looking for. This is pretty common I think and pretty much how we go about it. I've always had guards that can get the ball inside the zone, until now. Been a little different.
Let's just say you throw it on the baseline to the baseline runner and they are covered. Do you post with the ball side post player? Or do they space to a particular place?
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Yah. That's a work in progress. I've always had them and we've attacked gaps and such. Small, young and not great ball handlers at the moment. That's why I'm asking.
I hope this makes sense .. keep it simple...
I like to have an even number of players up top against an odd defensivelook like a 1-2-2.
I’d put my 1 and 3 at the top and run my 2 from wing to wing ( baseline)
4 and 5 would be on the blocks just outside the lane. 4 and 5 would flash into the lane where the zone opens up just below the ft lane ..this will be open a lot; they can receive a pass there but must drive to the basket and draw defenders to dump a pass off to the other big or kick it out to the wings for an open three
if it isn’t your 2 will be open all day for three point shots as tye defense attempts to take away that inside pass
depending on their skill set ...some on tye ball screens can be used as well as skip passes over the zone itself ( one skip pass always deserves a return skip pass) where your bigs can screen that wing zone Defender On the second skip pass for 2 to have a good look at a three point shot
I like to have an even number of players up top against an odd defensivelook like a 1-2-2.
I’d put my 1 and 3 at the top and run my 2 from wing to wing ( baseline)
4 and 5 would be on the blocks just outside the lane. 4 and 5 would flash into the lane where the zone opens up just below the ft lane ..this will be open a lot; they can receive a pass there but must drive to the basket and draw defenders to dump a pass off to the other big or kick it out to the wings for an open three
if it isn’t your 2 will be open all day for three point shots as tye defense attempts to take away that inside pass
depending on their skill set ...some on tye ball screens can be used as well as skip passes over the zone itself ( one skip pass always deserves a return skip pass) where your bigs can screen that wing zone Defender On the second skip pass for 2 to have a good look at a three point shot
I like to have one of the big men flash to the top of the key and I run a couple different sets from that. One is I have the big on that side that the ball is on flash to the top of the key while the big on the other side cut across the lane to pin his man deep under the basket.
The other is, I have the same action with the big going to the top of the key to get the ball, but this time the big on the other side continue to the corner to set an off the ball screen. Now you player that just ran the baseline gives the ball up to the top of the key and use that screen to cut to the basket.
Since you don't have any good ball handers, work on them going 3 on 5, doing a lot of passing and cutting. They are not to dribble at all and they only have 3 seconds to get the ball out of their hands. It will work on their decision making and of course passing.
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I have to say that I'm not a proponent of playing zones at that early of an age. I think they need to have the concepts of M2M before they get to guarding spaces. Just my philosophy.
I agree. I don't mean it's youth. I just mean we are young in terms of experience and relative to competition. But I completely agree about youth playing zone. Kids don't play today either at home. That's what we did when I was a kid. We played ball at my house, at my cousins house, at my friends house, at my grandmothers house. They have no clue how to do anything bc they literally don't play.
Sounds good. We did something like that today but not as good. We started playing full court 4 on 4 recently where they only get one dribble. We are young. We don't like pressure, which not being able to handle the ball will do that to you. But we are trying to learn to catch the ball facing, pivot, protect the ball, see the court, not waste our dribble, use the dribble to pass....it's been pretty good. I have to break things down like you said and play small things bc of numbers.
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