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Struggling to protect the paint? Use the 2 3 zone!
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Feb 1, 2025
Struggling to protect the paint? Use the 2 3 zone!
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hey coaches are you uh having a hard
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time stopping other teams from driving
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in and making easy layups against your
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squad um are you struggling to protect
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the paint if you are I'm going to show
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you a simple Zone most of you may
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already know about it but it's it's a
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two3 Zone you should consider
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implementing this into your into your
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defensive strategy especially if you're
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giving up easy buckets um I'm going to
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quickly go over just kind of the setup
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of it and kind of how it works and then
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you can decide if it would work for your
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team um but I think uh it will it should
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be able to address any issues that you
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have with teams um penetrating the paint
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real easy on you now I will throw a
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caveat into this if they're making easy
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buckets on you because it's a fast break
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then that the two3 zone is is probably
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just not the right
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solution um but if it's you know you're
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playing a man defense and and uh and and
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they're you know just driving in and
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beating the players you might need to uh
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use the zone defense which is a great
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defense uh to quickly you know get your
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team set up to par on on uh using a zone
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right um you know it's it's essentially
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a defense that if you do it right and
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you implement it closer to the basket
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you know as you can see I have all the
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exes set up here you know you're you're
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covering down that paint now obviously
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there's some weak areas and you're going
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to have to worry about perimeter shots
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and I'll talk about that here in a
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little bit but the uh two3 Zone if if
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you're getting beat on if if their
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team's driving on you you need to switch
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a two3 Zone this is what it looks like
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this is this is why you would do it so
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if the if if nothing else today I just
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want you to know that if you're out
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there in a tournament you're a new team
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and you're getting beat by easy layups
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just just think okay easy layups I'm
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going to a two three Zone get your team
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set up it's a really easy uh defense to
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learn they probably already know it if
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they've been playing wreck um but here's
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how it works so um when I'm getting beat
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in the paint and I switch to a two3 Zone
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I actually uh I have my players not
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extend out past that three-point line so
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I tell my players like Hey we're playing
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behind the line and they know I'm that
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they're not going behind the three-point
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line and that just it makes it easier
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for your team to keep the other team
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from driving in because what happens is
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they'll pop out they'll get beat and now
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they're still scoring in the paint um
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but essentially that's uh that's how I
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do that now you can play two three Zone
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extended um but it you know it's not the
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most effective against protecting the
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paint so essentially what you have is
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you know and I do have my players come
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out to the paint my two guards I do have
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them come out to the paint and I do you
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know bring this guy up a little bit and
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I do have you know I I do have these
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guys come up and I just have them walk
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watch you know the back door to make
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sure that that you know no one's popping
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in back there and I know that looks more
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like a 212 but this is really just you
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know putting my big player up here just
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just in a in a in a way to um assist the
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two guards if somebody gets back because
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remember I don't want them to score in
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the paint so I'm that's that's my focus
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here that's what that's what I'm focused
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on on on you know when I'm setting up
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this type of zone for this type of you
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know offensive threat so
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um you know so if someone tries to drive
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in I'm having my you know two
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guards stop them right and you know
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normally what they're going to do is
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they're going to pass out and and I and
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I mentioned this earlier in the video
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you're going to have to um you know
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you're going to have you're going to
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lose your defensive perter uh you know
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defense against perimeter shots you you
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know your team can still effectively you
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know close out and you know put some
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coverage on them but if it's a good
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three-point shooting team you know
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you're going to have some problems with
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this uh but if they close out
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effectively without fouling you'll still
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be able to cause some stress for them so
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um so just just to kind of work this
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thing around like how it looks you know
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if the ball gets passed down here to the
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corner you got a corner shot um you know
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this guy should pop out close out the uh
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middle guy the the five or the center
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should should you know come over here to
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about here and this guy should be a
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little bit more in the paint here
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because you don't want them to to work
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the ball in you also want to have your
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guard pop out over here and then your
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other guard come over here um if you're
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a quick team and you practice a lot you
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can do some trapping over here um I
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recommend it but if you're a new team
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and you're still just trying to figure
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this out and you're really just trying
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to keep them from scoring in the
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perimeter or in the uh in the paint
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you know maybe maybe op press isn't the
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most effective way um but I really
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really like the TR I'm sorry not OP
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press but a trap I really like the idea
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of trying to trap in Corners um
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especially if you're a younger team and
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you're going to use the zone you might
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as well take advantage of it and trap in
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the corner um that can get a little
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sticky sometimes because if you do a
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trap here effectively in the corner and
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this person's a little bit taller or a
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little bit more seasoned and they you
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know they get that ball
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here um you know now you've got you know
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you still you still have an effective
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defensive situation where you can you
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know pop this guy down a little bit here
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and have this guy come out um but this
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guy has to know to move over because you
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do leave some openings and then
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obviously you leave some openings here
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too so um that this guy's going to have
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to cover so just be cognizant of that um
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but you know if you're if you're trying
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to figure out how to address the problem
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of I keep getting scored on in the
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paint you know they're just driving in
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and they're destroying my man defense
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switch to the two3 Zone because you can
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protect
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it if you're just trying to
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protect the uh the the um the
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paint you can instruct your players not
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to gamble and not to uh not to not to
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not to overextend on their deep defense
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right if the ball goes here and you
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really don't think that team can shoot
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threes you know just put a guy on them
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but let him know that you know he can
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pop out um as long as they adjust over
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you're still running the man
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appropriately right and then they can
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move one thing that I always um try to
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articulate to my players is pretend like
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you're on a string when you're you know
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attached to the player that is next to
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you because um every you know once one
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person moves or once that basketball
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moves everybody moves right you see and
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you can see that here too right like the
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basketball let's say it was up here they
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got passed down here
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everybody moved to a different spot in
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their
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Zone and the same thing would happen if
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this ball was
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reversed down to this
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corner same thing's going to happen
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right everyone's going to adjust this
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player will now go
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here this player will take that spot
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this player will come up I I don't like
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to bring him too far up but come up to
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about there this player comes down here
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there's a trapping opportunity again
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very important in a two three Zone and
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then the uh other player comes here and
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we're we're focused solely on this zone
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I'm sorry the the paint we don't want
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anyone to score in the paint um now
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there are some other ways to run the two
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three Zone you can run an extended you
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can run a half court press um but
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today's video I just wanted to help the
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coaches that are having that are you
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know in the middle of a game and they're
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like man I'm you know my man my man
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defense is just getting torn to pieces
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and they're just driving in and and
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scoring layups um this will fix that
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getting them back getting them set up
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into a two3 Zone behind the line two3
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Zone you can really protect that paint
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I've played against teams that can't
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shoot through
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and the way that I would do my zone
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defense but like if they were just like
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a super aggressive athletic team and and
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like their you know their strength is
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just driving in and scoring layups on
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teams um I you know and this is this is
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kind of rare right like I don't think
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you're going to run into too you're
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going to run into teams like this but
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you know that have no shooters but what
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you know I I just tell them like you
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know what like don't come very far off
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of this line and just just just pack it
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in don't let him touch it don't let them
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touch this paint and then what will
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happen is the other coach will rotate
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his quick players out and he'll put
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Shooters in and then you know once you
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start seeing them just take advantage of
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three-point shots you know go back to
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your man defense or or change it you
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know um but yet but so you know today's
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video was solely about protecting the
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paint what do you need to do and we got
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to have strategies as coaches and this
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is the strategy that I think you should
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consider using when you have a team that
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is just driving in if you just want to
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protect the paint it's simple just
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protect the paint use the two three Zone
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and protect the paint simple as can be I
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hope that you guys enjoyed this video if
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you did if you find this uh this this
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content useful um please like the video
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please subscribe to the video um if you
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have uh comments on ways that this was
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effective for you in a game um or if you
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just have something that you want to add
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to the video for the other viewers
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please feel free to comment that down in
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the uh in the comment section below
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thank you
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