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PlaymakerMo

Years ago

Winning or Development

"A good man-to-man looks like a zone, and a good zone looks like a man."

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Jack Toft

Years ago

I agree with Bear.

One of the things about coaching is reacting to what the other coach is doing. If putting up a zone defence in U16 is winning games and the opposition coach can't break it, then why blame a coach for winning. At Classics winning is everything, so why not make it hard for the opposing coach and make him/her think.

Playing a zone in U10 is questionable.

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david morus

Years ago

development is far more important. winning games in the bonus

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hoopie

Years ago

Every team needs to have options. They should have at least one good zone AND a good man-to-man, and generally a press as well.

To me, that's development as well as common-sense - if the team has limited options then they become predictable, which makes them easier to beat.

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Jack Toft

Years ago

I think you may have.

There's a sneaky zone with one guard "hunting" outside the arc, the other 4 in a zone. Cut a player and they don't move/follow. Dumb refs think its man, very clever.

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PlaymakerMo

Years ago

^^well played!

Can't argue with most that has been posted thus far.

Development, and therefore man defence is virtually always the way to go, but zones do have their place in junior basketball. Personally, I like an aggressive zone as a change-up from press/man defence, similar to how it's used in the NBL. It's important for juniors to learn about zones so long as it doesn't come at the expense of defensive fundamentals.

I like SA's rules regarding zones, even if it hurts our chances at Classics etc. But the enforcement of the zoning rules could be improved.

I certainly couldn't generalize this across an entire club, but some U14 Sturt and West Adelaide coaches run stealthy zones, and a senior U16 coach at North runs a zone almost exclusively. Poor form.

@Jack - did I pick a winner?

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Jack Toft

Years ago

Actually, I wasn't thinking of them in particular.

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Jack Toft

Years ago

Actually, I wasn't thinking of them in particular.

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proud

Years ago

As long as they are playing basketball consistently and are being taught all the time then I don't care what happens (I think bigs should do all the passing, dribbling, outside shooting and stealing practice like the guards and the guards should learn to crash boards, set screens, block out on rebounds etc...). I hope that these kids are eager to learn and the coach has the capability to keep teaching them.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Who is it Jack?

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Jack Toft

Years ago

Isn't there one SA club that is notorious for zoning?

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