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Zone offence
Atkins North Carolina T-game


sketch
1
Ken Atkins

Continuity offence with a three-man rotation (3-4-5, or 2-4-5). See Huggins dive and fill.

1 dribbles to either side of the floor, 3 pops out to the ballside wing for a pass, 4 and 5 set screens for 3 if possible. 2 pops out from the high post opposite 1, 5 cuts to the ballside high slot, 4 stays low ballside.

If 1 passes to 2 at the high post, 2 turns and faces, 4 ducks in, 3 and 5 step off the lane toward the corners, giving three attackers along the baseline.

Options

- 4 fills the ballside short corner, 5 fills the midpost
- 1 and 2 exchange positions on a pass to a wing.

sketch
2
A pass back to 1 begins the three-man rotation, 4 cuts across the lane, 2 makes himself available for the next pass.

sketch
3
If 1 passes back to 3, 5 dives low and 4 fills the high post.

sketch
4
Against an odd-front zone defence, 1 usually reverses the ball by passing to 2. 4 keeps going to the ballside wing, 5 goes low ballside, 3 goes to the weakside block then comes high. The rotation is low to wing, high to low, and wing to high.

If 5 is shaky handling the ball on the perimeter, have him fill only the low post and high post, the other two players in the rotation fill the remaining two spots.

sketch
5
Here the ball is reversed by skip pass, rotation is again low to wing, high to low, wing to high.

sketch
6
On a pass into the low post, high-post 5 slices to the basket, weakside 2 flashes to the space vacated by 5, then gets back.

On a pass to high-post 5, he looks for 4, 3 (who drops towards the corner), or 2 opposite, and can shoot or drive.

sketch
7
To reverse the ball against an even-front or match-up zone, high-post 5 ballscreens for 1 then rolls low, 2 moves to keep spacing from the ball, 4 keeps going to the corner (not the wing), 3 goes low then fills the high post.

sketch
8
Here the ball is passed to 4 in the corner.

sketch
9
If 4 dribbles out of the corner, 5 goes short corner, 3 moves down to the midpost, 2 and 1 space away.

sketch
10
A pass to 2 begins the rotation, 5 crosses the lane,

sketch
11
Reverse the ball by pass, or by ballscreen, which is more difficult when 3 is at the midpost not high post (e.g., after a dribble-out from the corner, or if rotation positions are short corner, midpost, wing).

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