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are bigs need od too ?
im training 3 youngstar to play 3-2 zone and right now they have 7 od . Are they challenge a lot outside shoot in this tactic ?

thanks for answer

7/8 OD is sufficient enough. Big man do get drawn out of the key (even to 3 point line sometimes) a couple of times so OD does help.

But most of the jumpshots get defended by your 3 OD players and most of the Inside shot get defended by your 2 big man..

Is SB useful on the perimeter defenders?

I give u the best example how to build a perfect 3-2 zone:

PG: OD max
SG: OD max
SF: OD max
PF: ID, RB, SB max
C: ID, RB, SB max

A zone is only as strong as its weakest link. So it's best if all parts of the zone are the same size. So 3 Guards in the 3-chain and 2 center in the 2-chain.

The bigs play a lot helpside because they have no real matchup. SB is the perfect skill for helpside. If your opponent plays LI, their guards drive to the bucket and your Center is waiting to block him out of the arena!

btw, Im germany U21 Coach and look at season 38. Nearly every important game was 3-2 zone even when the opponent plays LI. We made it to semi finals:
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/8/jnt/schedule.aspx
Look at Season 38...



3-2 ist easy to build because you can easy defend inside tacticts. Its hard to build a SF with OD and ID, its also hard to defend driving guards with ID of your guards. If you have a 3-2 with 3 guards, 2 Center with a lot of SB, you will never have such problems.

Last edited by timo-93 at 12/10/2017 5:07:25 PM

My questions always seem to get the least responses.

But useless in 3-2 because the SF defends only outside

yeah of course, I would prefere ID on Guards, but only in M2M. SB isnt worth to be trained