“ZONE OFFENSES— CONCEPTS & PHILOSOPHY”
18. Screen individual defenders in the zone with various “on-the-ball” screens set at different locations as well as using “off-the-ball” screens in different manners (for both interior players and also perimeter players.) Zone offenses should incorporate on-the-ball screens with the screener rolling to the basket and posting up. The scheme should/could also utilize a ball-screen with the screener stepping out on the perimeter after setting the screen, (called “slipping” the screen and often times called “pick & pop,”) or with the screener “flaring” out on the perimeter. Various “off-the-ball” screens could be used as “Pin-Screens” to “pin” zone defenders in, particularly on the baseline, giving those cutters that use the “pin-screens” wide open shot opportunities on the perimeter. The action after those “pin-screens” could be that the initial screener then seals off the defender and posts up near the mid or high post areas. This “pin-screen” action becomes a two-man game with primary scorers both inside as well as on the perimeter.