The coach’s responsibility is to determine what his team’s strengths and weaknesses are. Not all teams have quick, good man-to-man defenders. Or the offense may have a couple of outstanding players too quick to defend individually. Playing a zone can help against mis-matches such as these. A coach may have a tall, strong, but not particularly quick team. A zone can look intimidating with the big guys stacked up inside with their hands up. This gives a chance for teams not so skilled on offense to slow the game down for the opposing team. Coaches love all the strategy involved in the game trying to showcase their basketball IQ. By analyzing player skills, style of play, and player size defensive strategies can be compared and the right fit can be found for any type of team. …show more content…
This will help depending on what zone your coach decides to use ranging from a 2-3, 1-3-1, 3-2. Explaining the rules of each zone as well as practicing it can be a difficult task for coaches with all the rules involved. First a coach must show each player their position on the court starting with a 2-3 zone. Oftentimes, we think of the 2-3 zone as a defense that less-athletic teams can use to force the offense to shoot from outside, while keeping the paint protected and your key rebounders inside. It is true that less athletic teams may have more success with this defense as it tends to shut down dribble-penetration and the inside post game. It usually requires the offense to be more patient in getting a good shot, and thus it gives you a way to help control tempo. The team with a disadvantage athletically needs to control the tempo can’t run with the other team. The next option a coach has is to use a high up press