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Craig Neal: Zone Offense Packages for Beating 2-3, 3-2, and 1-3-1 Zone Defenses

Item Number: BD-04989

Currently 3.50/5 Stars.

3.50/5 Stars (2 Reviews)

Create good 2-on-1 scoring opportunities against any zone defense

Learn over 10 zone offensive sets that can be utilized versus the 2-3 zone
Learn how to beat the 1-3-1 zone using a high ball screen
Effectively ball screen any zone defense to gain a numbers advantage on the back end

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Create good 2-on-1 scoring opportunities against any zone defense

Learn over 10 zone offensive sets that can be utilized versus the 2-3 zone
Learn how to beat the 1-3-1 zone using a high ball screen
Effectively ball screen any zone defense to gain a numbers advantage on the back end

with Craig Neal,
former University of New Mexico Head Coach;
2014 Mountain West Conference Tournament Champions; former NBA Scout & Assistant Coach with Toronto Raptors

With teams at all levels incorporating zone defense into their in-game strategies, coaches are continually looking for ways to break down a zone. Breaking down a zone defense can get your team easy shots and teach your players how to utilize great ball movement on offense.

Coach Craig Neal outlines his continuity and quick-hitting plays versus a 2-3 zone, 3-2 zone and a 1-3-1 zone. Using on-court demonstrators, he installs and introduces each zone offense like he would in practice, making it easy for you to take his concepts back to your program and make tweaks or install right away.

Coach Neal takes you through 13 set plays and a continuity offense he uses against a variety of zone fronts. He also shows you quick-hitting plays out of a timeout that will leave your opponents searching for answers. Finally, you'll see five plays for use in special situations against a zone defense.

2-3 Zone and Motion Sets

Using his "Regular" zone offense, Coach Neal manipulates his offensive alignment based on what type of defense his team is facing. Against a 2-3 zone, a simple 1-2-2 setup is used to move the ball and look for post touches in gaps. The guards' responsibilities are to dribble penetrate the gaps in the zone and look for open shots or post touches around the rim.

In a different look, 15 side, Coach Neal utilizes a ball screen to create 2-on-1 advantages on either side of the zone. Using the ball screen creates an open look for your best shooters on the floor. Coach Neal includes several other variations out of the Regular set, including Thumbs Down, Thumbs Side, Double Fist, Lob play, and an after-timeout set.

Motion Sets vs a 3-2 and 1-3-1 Defense

Against a 3-2 zone, Coach Neal takes his Regular offense and manipulates the initial set-up to get open looks for your shooters. In Head Pat, he uses a shallow cut with a ball screen to create a driving opportunity for your guards to get to the rim. In 4 out, guards look to create shooting opportunities on the weak side of the zone. By using the drive against a zone, Coach Neal forces the defense to make a decision between stopping drive or denying the open 3-pointer.

Against a 1-3-1, Coach Neal creates scoring opportunities for the baseline runner. With most 1-3-1 zones having a guard running the baseline, he takes advantage of his post players sealing hard against the guard and looks to score around the rim.

Plays After Timeout and Special Situation Plays

Coach Neal gives you six plays to use versus multiple zone fronts after a timeout or from an out of bounds situation. These sets create an advantage for a shooter on the perimeter or a baseline jumper for your post.

Learning how to effectively attack various zones has become increasingly important. Coach Neal has the experience and knowledge to help you beat any zone defense. He gives you everything you want to know on breaking a 2-3, 1-3-1 and 3-2 zone. These set plays can be started from the same alignment and offer different looks to keep the defense off guard.

"This season my team really struggled to score against zone defenses, our points per game went down nearly 10 points against a zone. Coach Neal has given our team the tools in this video to consistently beat a zone defense. I highly recommend this video." - Customer Review

Produced at the Spring 2015 Biloxi (MS) clinic.

57 minutes. 2016.

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Craig Neal: Zone Offense Packages for Beating 2-3, 3-2, and 1-3-1 Zone Defenses
on November 6, 2020

Currently 4/5 Stars.

4/5 Stars
by Anonymous

A lot of coaches have plenty of plays for the 2-3 Zone. Coach Neal presents some new nuances for the normal X Offense against that from a 3-2 alignment.

Where this DVD does a great job is against ODD defense. Coach Neal does a good job of taking an Odd front offense and morphing it into an Even front through motion. I especially love the Elbow play and have used it successfully against 3-2 and 1-3-1. Coach Neal actually uses it mainly against 1-3-1 as he describes in the DVD. We have modified it a little to make it a continuity for Odd Defenses without just setting up in a 4 out box set. It really keeps defenders on their toes.

Overall a good DVD. If you have Champ Coach, it is a great opportunity to look into what little tidbits you can get from Coach Neal. He gives good upgrades to the basic norms.

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Craig Neal: Zone Offense Packages for Beating 2-3, 3-2, and 1-3-1 Zone Defenses
on October 24, 2017

Currently 3/5 Stars.

3/5 Stars
by JohnBostrom881

Coach Neal wastes no time spending less than a minute explaining what he is going to do and then we get straight into it.

For the 2-3, you see what you usually see, high post flashing, short corner, overloads, ball screens, and skip passes. This isn't that different from other 2-3 zone offenses. He does give a couple sets but doesn't run through them 5v0 (sometimes not more than once) so if you really wanted to capture these to add to your offense you're going to need to watch each set a few times. None of these are continuity either, they are all plays/sets.

There are quick hitters and blob/slob sets shown which aren't bad, but again are shown only once.

The breakdown is 23 minutes on 2-3 zone offense, 9 minutes on 3-2 zone offense and 17 minutes on 1-3-1 with a 10 minute wrap-up and Q&A. As we get into the 3-2 and 1-3-1, it's obvious the players haven't really seen these defenses before so the offense sets don't come through as clearly.

One negative is the camera angle, which is relatively low making it harder to see what is happening when there 5v5 action. I do wish he had gone through things 5v0 for each set, so you could clearly see what was happening first before 5v5. Finally, I always like to see some breakdown drills, with or without shooting and there isn't a single drill to be found here.

This could have been better had he focused on just one or two zone offenses, but packing three into an hour means that things get skipped over. 3/5 stars, a good start but too much crammed into an hour. See other zone offense videos for the details.

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