1-4 High Motion Offense

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Coach,

What is tough for young players is moving the ball (and the body for those players away from the ball) quickly enough and at enough distance where the Ameoba pressure doesn't get the player or ball pinned on the sideline.  Keep your PG high and stretch that defense, then use your double HP's as outlets against the pressue.  It's very difficult to guard the double HP from the Ameoba without giving up important territory at the basket or in the corners from the HP position.  Keep in mind as well, that hard fast penetration from the wing to bust through the oncoming trap (if you wings can handle the pressure and penetrate) creates great shots weakside off the penetration.

 

Good luck with your attack.  I have a copy of the Zone Motion offense I used but it's in an animated clinic which we are attempting to get converted to a flash format on our new platform.  I'll put it up when we have resolved that step.

Coach,

In reality you can run a 1-4 High Entry into any type of zone motion offense.  I ran for years an offense called Zone Motion which came from some of Pete Newell's great ideas on zone attack.  Essentially you one one of your bigs out to the corner, and the opposite wing temporarily to the same ball side low block.  The second big goes to the high post.  On the wing pass, he passes to the big in the corner, and the wing cuts through or loops to the opposite wing.  The ball immediately goes back out to the PG who has filled the wing for the vacated wing, and then he starts dribbled across (with or without a screen by the HP big man).  The baseline big cuts to the basket and looks to screen the wing (shooter) who came from the opposite wing to the ball side block.  As the PG dribbles across the zone defense shifts to the middle of the court and this opens up a cross court skip pass back to the shooter off the baseline screen.  When the ball is reversed to the opposite of the court (if not shot in corner is available) the HP big slash diagonally toward the opposite low block on into the corner.  The baseline big screening flashes to the new ball side HP, and the shooter chases baseline to the new ball side low block ready to receive another baseline screen when the ball is reversed in the other direction.

Now there are many different types of zone motion so don't let this basic zone motion be your decider.  The point is that whether you use a baseline screen, a short or pull post type attack, or even interior screening action, you can start any zone attack in a 1-2-2, 1-3-1, 1-4 High or even 1-4 Low and initiate cuts into your basic motion.  The advantage of doing this is that some types of zone attack (especially pressure or trapping zones) like to take you out of initial motion.   While it might seem counter-intuitive to place 1-4 baseline when facing a 3-2 trapping zone for example, if you have a confident ball handler-passer up top, by spreading the baseline, you are going to force the bottom two defenders of the trap to cover a lot of ground.  We used to play games with this type of defense with a 1-4 baseline start because we had two big men.  If one of the defenders got outside to over anticipate the corner skip pass, we'd fake that pass and throw it right at the basket.   The key to understanding how to vary up your zone entry attack is simply to understand where you are getting pressure and where do you want your players and the ball to redue this pressure.

Another basic example is facing the Amoeba (1-1-3) Pressure Defense.  This defense has most of it's success by initially trapping or pinnning the ball to the sideline and not letting the ball into the middle of the court.  This let's defenders overplay the lanes and usually results in a lot of turnovers for the defense.  I found over the years that putting a second high post (ah yes another 1-4 High entry) gave this defense problem.  When you focus on making a high post entry pass against the Ameoba, this HP immediately squares up facing the basket, as the second HP player without the ball dives hard diagonally to the basket which puts enormous pressure on the interior zone defender of the Amoeba.  As a result one of the wing defenders must usually collapse down to help, at which point we dove our wings to the corners for easy skip passes and shots.   This is a bit oversimplied, but again the point is you can attack a zone from a number of different entries with success if you teach you kids how to entry their regular zone motion from each of those entries, and it's effective.