🏀 Unexpected cures for zone offense woes

Published: Sat, 11/18/17

Coach,

Most teams try three-pointers when they face a zone defense—with disappointing results.

Why?

Three reasons:

1. To win using three-pointers, you need superstar shooters.

2. “Shoot threes until they go back to man defense” is not a structured approach

3. Most offenses are geared to beat man defenses.

Many coaches believe focusing on the highest-percentage shot (a layup) doesn’t work on zones.

Rick Torbett (creator of the Read and React offense) says they’re wrong. He believes layups are the most effective way to win against zone AND man defenses.

With a few adaptations to existing strategies, he’s helped coaches get to the point where their opponents won’t play them zones anymore—because their layups had become too dangerous.

So, how does he do it?

The quick answer:

He does two simple things:

1. Rick overloads one zone defender with two attackers

and

2. gives them no chance but to leave an attacker open to score a layup and takes advantage of “incidental opportunities”, which could be outside shots, inside shots or layups.

He calls his full approach the Zone Attack.

You have two options to learn more about the Zone Attack:

Check out the Zone Attack on BetterBasketball right now. This link takes you to the page where you learn more about the Zone Attack and get streaming access today. Click here to check out the Zone Attack now.

Rick is holding a free live web presentation at 9:00 pm Eastern Time this Sunday, November 18 to walk you through some of the tactics and answer your questions. Seats are limited, so get yours now: Click here to be there live.

This is how the Zone Attack came about:

Over the past 3 years, Rick has worked with a select group of coaches to adapt his layup-centered offense to attack zones as effectively as man defenses.

The Zone Attack builds on Read and React principles. It’s ok if you don’t know about the R&R offense.

Here’s the scoop: R&R focuses on scoring high-percentage shots to maximize your chances of winning. It prioritizes teaching how to play good basketball over “scripted” plays—which turns your players into competent athletes and your team into a tightly-knit unit.

But you don’t need to know every detail.

Either way, the Zone Attack helps you you break challenging zone defenses with the same kind of success you’ve had with player to player defense.

You can get access to the Zone Attack today. Click here to check out the Zone Attack.

Rick will hold a live web presentation on Sunday at 9:00 pm Eastern Time to walk you through the Zone Offense and answer as many of your questions as he can. Seats are limited.

Click here to be taken to Rick’s site BetterBasketball.com and learn more!

Or you could get the Zone Attack to surprise your competition this season. Check out the Zone Attack now.

Here’s a few highlights from the Zone Attack:

You’ll learn...

How to adjust your offense so your team has a “go-to“ and “counter-move” response to anything the defense does when they play zone.

A new way to dominate “brick-wall“ defenses to score layup after layup against zones like clockwork.

An inside look at the tactics I’ve taught to high-performing coaches to help them create wide-open windows in zone defenses.

Get access to the Zone Attack now.

Brian Williams

The Coaching Toolbox

P.S.: Would you like Rick to show you all key elements of the Zone Attack and how easy it is to implement? Click here to register for the live presentation this Sunday, November 19 at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.

P.P.S.: Want to learn more about the Read and React offense and the principles the Zone Attack builds on? Click here to get access to all BetterBasketball courses.