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Basketball Plays 1-3-1 Zone Attack

By Brian Williams on March 3, 2014

Basketball Plays 1-3-1 Zone Attack

These ideas for attacking a 1-3-1- zone are from an old Xavier Men’s Basketball Newsletter.

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10 Rules–Attacking the 1-3-1

  1. Push the basketball (take advantage — don’t let the zone set up)
  2. Take the ball up against the defense
  3. Ball reversal (get the zone to shift)
  4. Get the ball Inside
  5. – Every 3-4 passes. ball must get into the post
    – Inside out pass
    – In and away pass

  6. Attack the gaps
  7. Use skip passes-Use the whole court and make defense turn their head
  8. Get overloads
  9. Use screening offenses
  10. – Inside screening
    – Little on big

  11. Big guys • use short corners & post (spread the offense)
  12. 10. Use mis-direction passes

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1-3-1 Zone Attack

Option 1 (Look for lob) and Option 2

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Option 3 and Option 4

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Option 5

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Quick Hitter

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  1. Stan says

    November 2, 2015 at 10:45 am

    Nice set! I will use this in my zone offense.

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