The Cuse 2/3 is like the option in CFB

except for the 2/3 is successful and Ga Tech blows

I went to a Nike coaching clinic where boeheim was the key note

Some jack arse asked him about his 2/3 being stuck in the past or something and not working against today's athletes and boeheim said "my athletes are better than your's" and shut the guy down

Yes
I am not PB

We coached together one season
He went to ND the next year

SS? WC? MC?

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Most middle school teams can't (and definitely shouldn't) run zones. Learn to play man.

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I've gotten in this debate here in the past. We run a zone and run it well. Based on our rules of substitutions and such it works and we obliterate teams that try and run man but have zero concept of switching off or help defense.

we only ran 2-3 against teams that tremendously outsized us in high school. my coach was from the danny coaching tree so we ran 12 and 42 almost exclusively

Our problem with man is we don't get enough practice time to dedicate to man

If you are a man team in jr high you have to commit to it and if it turns out you can't really do it you have wasted the little gym time you get

So we realized esrly on we didn't really have basketball players but just a few good athletes that played hard. So we fit a system to them that worked

You need to learn to play man-to-man.

It's a fundamental concept that has applications when you move to zone. It's the backbone of basketball defense, and it's what the majority of high schools and colleges run, so it's pretty important to know.

At least in my opinion. I understand that learning to play zone is a great skill too, but I think it can easily make players lazy defenders if they use the zone as a crutch at a young age.

ESA

I coached there too
Bourg's first four years
I probably know you

Dave brought man to man push to the baseline principles (dean smith way) to mike at ESA from his time coaching girls HS in Carolina. Until then we all ran push to the middle of the floor like we had Hakeem playing center