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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2970594, member: 405"]
Our zone makes adjustments all the time.

When a team is getting the ball into the foul liine area, we pinch in one or two of the guards.

When someone is using picks against the guards, we pull the weak side forward up a little higher.

When teams put 2 guys down low, with one on the baseline, one of the forwards comes off the 3 point line and hedges down low against the guy on the baseline, or to challenge the entry pass into the post.

Sometimes if there is a good low post player, the forward on the ball side sags down low to cut off the entry pass, like we did with Zion against Duke.

Our zone is an amoeba zone.  It's a scouting report zone, as Jay Bilas calls it.

The problem is a couple things - the center needs to be quick enough to challenge up to the foul line, as well as retreat down low against the backdoor cut / lob.  The weak side guards need to be super-aware of being sucked in by dribble penetration because it usually leads to passes to the weakside wing for a three attempt.

The forwards have to play so high on shooters, but then retreat back to cover corner jumpshooters, or frequently the center has to go all the way out to challenge a corner shooter, which really hinders our ability to rebound.

We play the interior passes exceptionally well.  We get so many steals inside the guts of our zone.  I don't see other teams' zones nearly as effective at that as we are.  We also get a fair amount of steals on the cross-court skip pass, which I don't see people try against us nearly as often as they used to.

The problems are that we need a mobile center, it's hard to guard out to 25 feet without creating new passing lanes and holes in the zone, and if you bring your forwards so high to guard against the three, it's almost impossible to defend the weakside corner three.
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