scratching my head
Years ago
Can anyone tell me what education BSA stadium Managers (Orange shirts) have regarding interpreting a zone in junior games ?
Is there a paper or course ?
cat
Years ago
consistent zoning in u10 girls Division 1 now.
Used to be only one team, now its grown.
Orange shirts never have and never will pull it up..'too hard ' basket
.
Years ago
what is frustrating is at one stadium regularly 4 pairs of defenders feet in the paint when the ball is in offences back court still, then one player just runs around after the ball whilst the others stand in paint.
Another stadium you play half court man and they threaten T the coach up because you are not picking players up full court.
Very Old
Years ago
the problem is the kids don't start to pay for this bad coaching until they get to at least the u/14 age group.
watched a parent coach their own kid in u/10s. for the next 4 years the coaches record with this group was outstanding. 80% of the teams points were scored by 3 players, came 2/3 or 4th in every season at the highest grade of 10's and 12's. was going to be the savior of this under-performing district clubs' juniors
The same coach was continually re-appointed as head coach in that clubs D1 juniors for their kids age groups for the next 6 years. Only won 5-6 games every season against the bottom and second bottom D1 teams, with the same group of players, until in u/18s ( i think) the club nominated in d2 instead of d1 and then had a 50% season 2 out of the 4 seasons.
Very frustrating , was just like watching a train wreck in very very slow motion.
Very Old
Years ago
IMHO the zone in 10s and 12s will not work against teams that are coached to play absolute 1-on-1 defense in the full court AND to ALWAYS run and pass the ball up to the next player.
Do ralph miller's full court offensive passing drills in practice, including not allowing more than one dribble before passing up and those zone teams will be overrun.
Even if you have to do a 3/4 court start instead of a full court , so that they at least are able to get the ball passed in and some of their players down court to be "behind" your fast break. Doing it this wayyou also need to rotate your players so that all of them get a bite at the opositions' inbounding group.
JMO
scratching my head
Years ago
hence my question - what official training or papers do they refer to regarding zones ? From what I have seen they make it up depending who complains first / loudest.
It then becomes a power trip
Very Old
Years ago
This is the BA document
http://websites.sportstg.com/get_file.cgi?id=1089858
Very Old
Years ago
Quote:
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Don't worry about the full court
6.
The rule is only concerned with playing man to
man principles in the quarter court (effectively
the three point line). Teams can play any defence they want in the full court.
7.
Just because a player or a number of players run
back to their defensive
key does not make it a
zone defence.
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