In order for the zone defense to work properly each defensive player must hustle at all times to beat their opponents to the other end of the floor. If you have a bigger, slower team the zone defense allows you to put your “Big” around the basket while your “Smalls” stay out on the perimeter.
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4. Triangle-and-two
A classic example of when to use a zone defense can probably be best demonstrated when the Dallas Mavericks played the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. Unfortunately, in this scenario LeBron James didn’t find his perimeter jump shot and the entire team struggled, which resulted in an NBA Finals loss for the Miami Heat.
But if it gives your team the best chance to win at the end of the day in youth sports then that’s what counts for the most part. Good zones can limit the numbers of fouls you commit.
It's more difficult to figure out which person to block out when in a zone defense. Playing in a zone defense will LIMIT your players' development.
You might win more games by playing zone, but from a development standpoint do the right thing and play man to man defense with your youth team. In our opinion, he runs one of the best zone defenses in the country, and it gives you the most thorough explanation of zone defense we have seen. If you'd like to dig deeper and get more information about developing an effective 1-3-1 zone defense, we highly recommend Will Rey’s 31 Defense.
The perfect youth basketball defense should prepare players for the next level. The perfect youth basketball defense should allow players to experience all components of defense.
It was created by Dick Bennett of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Wisconsin-Green Bay, University of Wisconsin, and Washington State. The Pack Line defense is already used by many youth basketball coaches as well as high school teams and some of the best college basketball teams in America.
Traditional man-to-man defense is too hard to teach to young players. Instead, there needs to be a simpler progression before players attempt to master the man-to-man defense.
Jim Boone and other advocates of the Pack Line defense all believe that off-ball defenders cannot accomplish all three of these things effectively: The Pack Line teaches the four off-ball defenders where they must be on the floor to help their teammates.
They’ll often even lose sight of where the basketball is on the court because their focus is on shutting down the player they’re defending. Quick Note: Just because there’s help doesn’t remove the responsibility of the on-ball defender to guard their player one-on-one.
I’ve already written a full coaching guide to the Pack Line defense, so I’m not going to go into detail in this post. The purpose of this article is to explain to you why the Pack Line defense is the best defense for youth basketball.
The only coaches who will say this are those that aren’t aware of how the Pack Line defense works. I’m going to share with you the 4 reasons why zone defense is terrible for youth basketball that I wrote about in my ‘ ZoneDefense is Terrible For Youth Basketball blog post, and why the same is not true for the Pack Line defense.
• In a zone, defense players guard an area by standing and watching the basketball. In the Pack Line, defense players have a direct opponent and must be constantly adjusting their off-ball position.
• In a zone defense, there are minimal opportunities to defend a ball screen. In the Pack Line, defense players must fight through screens exactly the same as man-to-man.
In the Pack Line, defense players guard everywhere on the floor. Most zones in youth basketball will pack the paint with defenders and force their opponent to shoot long shots from the outside.
A zone doesn’t prepare players for the next level because of all the poor defensive habits they pick up and because they don’t experience enough components of defense. As we’ve just talked about, in the Pack Line defense players don’t pick up these bad habits, and they do experience all components of defense.
Zone defense isn’t fun in basketball because players have minimal chance of scoring because they’re forced to shoot long-distance shots. They’ll be playing very similar to a man-to-man defense (except easier to learn).
The defense will make mistakes and the offensive team will be able to move the basketball around and take advantage of them. Let’s start off by remembering that the only difference from a traditional man-to-man defense and the Pack Line is the defender one-pass away.
Use the Pack Line defense to teach the principles and basics of man-to-man defense and then when your players are capable, start introducing the denial aspect of man-to-man. We must sacrifice some complexity in the beginning to allow players to develop quicker.
The Pack Line defense is the best defense for youth basketball. It doesn’t matter about the height of your team, how athletic they, or any other excuse that coaches find to run a different defense.
Due to simplicity and promoting team basketball, the Pack Line defense is the only defense I’ll be recommending for youth basketball from now on.
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