Tom Izzo Michigan State University Zone Set Plays

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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May 7, 2014

Tom Izzo Michigan State University Zone Set Plays

Tom Izzo is the Head Coach of Michigan State University. He has won a National Championship in 2000 and has been the National “Coach of the Year” three times. These Tom Izzo Michigan State University Zone Set Plays will help your team execute against a 2-3 zone. Coach Tom Izzo offers up a lot of basketball nuggets that should get you thinking about how you run your zone set plays. You will get to see the Tom Izzo Michigan State University Zone Set Plays in action against a 2-3 zone and 3-2 zone. Coach Izzo will also show you his favorite baseline out of bounds play in addition to a play for winning the tip and one for losing the tip.

Coach Izzo will also shift to the defensive end of the floor and talk about stance, positioning, and line of the ball concept. He will show the 3 on 3 close out drill and progress to the 4 on 4 drill that includes defending the flare screen and pin down screen. They will also add an extra offensive player to become a 4 on 5 drill that requires great communication by the defense. Five concepts for guarding on the ball screens will be presented.

These Tom Izzo Michigan State University Zone Set Plays will aid in helping your team score against zone defenses. Coach Tom Izzo is one of the few coaches that the NBA will always look at every year when they have coaching changes. He has a NBA set play offense that he runs like most NBA teams. I think that he would be very good at that level.

Some of the NBA possible coaches this year could be George Karl, Lionel Hollins, Stan Van Gundy, Jeff Van Gundy, and you never know about college coaches: Kevin Ollie, Fred Hoiberg, John Calipari, and now Roy Williams.

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