Basketball Plays--Middle Ball Screen vs. 2-3 Zone

.  In the first diagram, the ball-handler, O3, turns the corner and attacks the lane because X2 does not come over to stop penetration.  X2 stays matched up on O1, and as O2 turns the corner, X5 and X3 step up to stop penetration which opens up O2 on the wing for an uncontested 3 pt. shot.
In this diagram,, as O1 comes off the ball screen, X2 steps over to stop the penetration. This opens up the pass to O3 for a shot.  Iif X4 is able to stop O3’s shot, then a pass to O2 in the corner creates an open shot.

Diagrammed Zone Plays

3 Rover is a digram (not an animated play) of a set play to run against a 2-3 zone.

Cincy is a set play that can be run against either a man or a zone.

Rotation from Tommy's Playbook.  The site is designed for coaches of younger levels, but is worth a look for everyone.

Cross Opposite

LA Zone Attack is a patterned zone offense.

Baseline Runner is a play I found on the Xavier Men's Newsletter archive site.

Xavier Zone is a play to look to get the ball inside against a zone.

1,2 Strongside Zone Attack - A continuity zone offense

Zone Offense Video Clips

Coach K. 2-1-2 Zone Attack This is a very short segment of a DVD from Coach K showing him coaching his 2-1-2 or 2-3 zone attack in practice.  The point he makes that I like is that we all need to have some type of misdirection in our zone attack.  He makes the point dealing with a misdirection dribble for individuals, but in my opinion, we need to have some misdirection in our passing principles as a team as well when we attack a 2-3 zone.

Tara Vanderveer Continuity Zone Offense We found this idea for a simple continuity zone offense to run against a 2-3 zone from Tara Vanderveer on youtube.  It gives you a method to dribble the forward away from their guarding spot and then run a player to the short corner.

Baseline Zone Attack Another video from YouTube. It has three ideas for ways to attack a 2-3 or 2-1-2 zone from behind.

Five--Set play to run against a zone defense. The link will take you to a page on the Championship Productions web site. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the video of this play. The play forces the zone to guard three movements--a basket cut, a flex type screen, and a staggered double for a shooter.

Oliver Purnell Inside Zone Attack This is a short clip of Coach Purnell teaching his inside players to "seal in and seal out." when Clemson faces a 2-3 zone.