Posted by Cidder10 on 2/12/2016 12:36:00 AM (view original):
What if I'm playing a press 3/2 zone, where do I out the allocated minutes? Zone or press?

Thanks

i STRONGLY recommend, as a new coach, that you do not play half court press zone (or half court press man). losing those team practice minutes is VERY hard to overcome, generally speaking, the coaches who have been successful with it, have done so in spite of running that system. you should really just pick one defense, go press or zone.

if you were going to run both, basically admins have said press is a factor in hcp in only 20% of the possessions. so, you definitely want to focus on zone, you could do like 20m in zone and 12 in press or something (which is a HUGE waste compared to the individual practice minutes you could be using!!)

I've only run man press or man zone when by sheer luck of recruiting I end up having a large number of players that start out high in press in addition to the primary offense, and even then it's usually only in late game trailing situations.

Coreection: other time I've run it is in the middle seasons of transitioning to press from man, while my man if is still high and my press iq is going up.i

But either way it's a temporary happenstance condition not something planned.

Ok huge thanks Gillispie. I'll make some adjustments right now.