RE: The Official Broncos Vs Eastern Gamethread!
This is where decisive use of either hand with running hook shots offset length and athleticism.
You attack zones from behind.
Flashing up from behind be it up the lane, to the dotted circle or from one block to the opposite elbow forces zones to react (distort). If not, you should be able to catch the ball in advantagous spots. The $64K question is then what? The answer is to be decisive with the ability to go right up or in either direction.
Anytime you can get the middle man in the 2-3 to step up high you expose the blocks AND the corners. The bottom two have to find someone and decide what space to occupy and who to be prepared to go to.
Defenses will sometimes drop the opposite guard of the 2 back to the FT line allowing the big to stay low.
This poses a great opportunity to seal or screen this kid particularly if you have the screenee's # catching the ball on the move and in one motion rising up, or catching and driving the gap between the screenee and screener and the b-s big along the baseline.
Drive it it. If Riley comes out you pull up and take the 15-17' with him in no man's land, hesitate as if and if he runs at you, duck and drive to the rim.
If the big on the baseline makes the play and not Riley, your Pokely in the corner is spotting up.
Even if on the kick out that big closes out, your big has rolled down the land and is 1-1 with Riley on his back. Why? Because Riley as all in a zone watch the ball not the man. Whit set that side screen, holds it for our opp. guard to attack, then rolls down the lane, to rebound the J, tip in the lay up or if kicked out slides in from of Riley.
Zip the ball in and a quick move into the lane with the right hand (running hook) and Riley is helpless. If he reacts appropriately, Whit sees him with his peripheral and simply shows the ball, Riley straightens up as to rise up and Shayne simply pulls the ball back in as he reverses with a drop step back down the lane to kiss it off the glass with his left. Riley is polishing air.
3 open shots, all from a position of strength, all negating the problems posed by zones. Players involved.
Klien with the ball, Whit is the flashing post, Brown is the off guard screened for and Pokely is in the corner.
EMU can only do two things to adjust.
- Bring Riley up and not the guard in. Riley won't do it. Too lazy.
So you simply deliver the pill to Shayne flashing up. Catch, reverse pivot and drain the 15'er or show and bring Riley up and drive him. Or Shayne can pass it out to the b-s corner (Paul) who can hit that shot or Shayne now dives to the block for a give n go, as Riley now has come up to contest. You can reverse roles and have Darius flash up and Shayne can walk up the baseline to pin his man at the block for a high- low.
- Or flatten out the guards up top to take away space in the lane. Which is what typically happens to most zones when you move the ball corner to corner. So no real advantage for the zone.
-We have a couple guys who can step into 20'ers and drain them all night
Another tact is to use your corner/wing guys to flash up the into the lane. Hutch, Brown, Perry and Tava along the baseline and straight up the lane, instead of a big. Now you have someone who is a scorer in the heart of the lane who can shoot the J, drive and finish or make a pass to a big who has pinned their baseline defender on the block. Or you have the opposite wing/corner standing behind the arc for a quick outlet for a catch and shoot.
One key against the zone is to be a triple threat. If you telegraph your intention you have handed them the keys to your car. None of this ball over the head, legs straight and not looking toward WMU's goal.
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The Official Broncos Vs Eastern Gamethread!
