Carolina 2 Zone Offense Set Play by Adam Short

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November 11, 2013

Carolina 2 Zone Offense Set Play

This is a great Zone Offense Set Play to run against a zone to really jump start your team. At Avila, we ran this play a little different. We would still have the 4 man screen the outside defender on the right side. The only difference is we would have the 5 man screen the middle man of the zone. After seeing this play ran having the 5 man flash to the high post, this is the way I will run it for now on. You can run this play on either side. You want the first pass to go to the player you are throwing the lob to. For this particular diagram, we will run this play on the right side. 1 will hit 3. X3 will come out to take 3. X2 will bump X3 back down.

1 and 2 will interchange. 3 will hit 2. X1 will have to come take 2. X2 will guard the high post. 2 will swing the ball to 1. X4 will come out and take 1; X2 will bump X4 down. 5 will then flash to the high post. This is force X5 to cover 5. 4 will sprint to set a back screen on X3. 3 will cut to the basket for the lob. To make this play work, 5 must cut to the high post hard. 5 must call for the ball which will help set the decoy. 4 is responsible for setting a great back screen. 4’s back must be to the basket. Like I said earlier, this is a great zone offense set play to get a team going.

Adam Short begins his first year as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Cowley College. Short grew up in Indiana and was a First-Team All-Conference selection as a senior at Lake Central High School. He went on to attend Joliet (Ill) Junior College and helped the team to a NJCAA Division III national runner-up finish, while being named First-Team All-Conference and a two-time Region 4 Player of the Week. After Joliet, Short spent his final two years of college basketball playing at NAIA school Avila University in Kansas City, MO. At Avila, he scored more than 1,000 points in his career and earned all-conference honors each year at the school. He graduated from Avila in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in writing. Short then served as a graduate assistant coach with the Avila men’s basketball team from 2011-2013, and earned a Masters degree in Organizational Development in 2013. He also spent the past two years working with MoKan Nike Elite Youth Basketball League out of Kansas City, MO. His job duties consisted of coaching, scouting, and breaking down film.

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