The 1-3-1 zone defense in the game of Basketball was invented by the Hall of Fame coach Clair Bee. Coach Bee became interested in zone concepts after observing the zone concepts of Coach Cam Henderson of Marshall University.
Many basketballs teams just adapted to that style of play. I think it started around the Michael Jordan era.
Dick Labaeu
In basketball, the two types of defense a team mostly plays are called man-to-man and zone. The man-to-man defense is where the responsibility of a player on defense is to guard a player on the offense. In the zone defense, the responsibility of the player on defense is to patrol a specific area, or zone, of the court. Click on the 'Zone Defense' link on this page to read an article to learn more.
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Zone Defense
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Man And Zone
The best offense to run against a trapping zone defense to quick ball movement involving cuts from players on the wings into the paint where the zone is the weakest is in the middle
the zone and player-player!
== == == == Remember these words: Attack the middle of the zone. Once the ball gets into the middle of the zone, the zone has been broken down, and operate from there. You pass it around until the defense makes a mistake or have someone drive to the hoop and so the defense will follow and then have him dish it off to a guard to pop a j
Guarding by area. The other common defense is called guarding by player in which each person covers a specific player from the opposing team.(Zone Technique)
You can defend more than one person