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Step-by-step instructions for developing an offensive scheme to effectively deal with zone defenses.
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Foreword
One of the great joys of coaching basketball is the many people you meet and get to know through the game. I first got to know John Kresse when I was an assistant coach and he was a player under the legendary Joe Lapchick at St. John's University. I noticed the way this kid worked and the way he put time into the game. So I said to him, "Would you like to get involved in coaching?" That summer John went to Clair Bee's camp, which is the granddaddy of all camps, and I think that's where he really started to get involved.
John took his first job in 1964 at Christ the King High School in New York. A year later, when Coach Lapchick retired from St. John's and I was fortunate enough to succeed him, I asked John to join me as one of my assistants.
It's a great story. The first game I ever coached at St. John's was the freshmen against the varsity. John took the freshmen and beat me. He felt so bad he wouldn't come to practice the next day. That was the start of a long relationship. John was my assistant for the next 14 years-11 at St. John's and three with the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association. John left St. John's for Charleston in 1979 and has enjoyed great success there since that time.
It doesn't surprise me. You could tell at an early age that John was really a student of the game-that he had a certain flair. Sometimes you can develop that aspect in a person, but in John's case, you could see it was more than that. It was inherent.
You can see that John has a special "feel" for the game by the way he handles things. A lot of people can learn basketball from a book. But to be really successful you have to have a feel for the game. John has a great advantage because he's an excellent bench coach. He can change defenses very well. That's a gift. That's tough to teach. It has to be an inherent gift.
Besides that, John's whole life is dedicated to basketball. His love for the game is reflected in this book-a book which, in my opinion, provides a valuable resource for coaches at all levels.
LOU CARNESECCA FORMER HEAD COACH, ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY 1992 INDUCTEE, NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME, SPRINGFIELD, MA
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How This Book Will Help Your Program
During more than three decades as a basketball coach I have seen a tremendous growth in the use and sophistication of zone defenses. Coaches who once frowned upon zones rely on them, while those who used zones all along have elevated their team's defenses to new levels of intensity and execution.
Examples abound. Everyone who follows the college game knows of the tenacious matchup zone played by Coach John Chaney's Temple University Owls. Year in and year out Temple is among the nation's stingiest teams in terms of points allowed and opponents' field-goal percentage. No change there! But how about the long-term change legendary former Princeton University Coach Pete Carill made from man-to-man to zone defensive philosophy? More recently, North Carolina's Dean Smith coached his 1994-95 team to the NCAA Final Four, in part by using more zone defense than any Tar Heel team in the last 20 years. Jim Boeheim took his Syracuse team to the 1996 NCAA championship game largely on the strength of a stifling 2-3 zone defense.
Even coaches with reputations for demanding tough, man-to-man defense, such as Duke University's Mike Krzyzewski, occasionally employ zone defenses. In today's college game the coach who relies exclusively on man-to-man defense is rare indeed. It's easy for me to put this into perspective. Every team we faced during the 1993-94 and '94-95 seasons-a total of 57 games -played at least some zone defense. Opponents included Wake Forest, Alabama, Illinois, Penn State, Providence, Nebraska and Alabama-Birmingham, to name a few. And yes, we mix in zone defenses as part of our overall scheme at the College of Charleston. We believe that the ability to change defenses contributes greatly to our success.
No single explanation exists for the zone phenomenon. The increased number of overpowering inside players, the proliferation of players with unstoppable one-on-one moves, the desire to minimize foul trouble, the belief that zone defense is easier to teach than man-to-man, and many other factors have contributed to the increased use of zones.
But none of that matters when the game is on the line and the opposition is playing zone defense. That's when you face the bottom line.
You might as well face it now. If you're going to develop a consistent winner at any level, from grade school to college, men or women, your team must be able to attack zone defenses.
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I'm not talking about creating and taking nothing but perimeter jump shots. The jump shot is a useful weapon against the zone. But as every coach knows, if you live by the jump shot, you die by the jump shot. Do that and your team will never be as successful as it should be.
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