Simply, a zone defense has a defender guarding an area instead of a specific player. The Cavs play a 2-3 zone that adapts to ...

Matchup zones are different from your traditional zone defense because instead of guarding ... Whereas in football, you have somebody up top (radioing down from the coaching box) who can tell ...

When Oregon State women’s basketball coach Scott Rueck began his coaching career, he was strongly opposed to playing zone defense ... try to change it up on them.” Sometimes that means ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder have faced a zone defense for 174 possessions this season. In those possessions, the Thunder are posting 1.116 points per possession r ...

As a player, he never played in a zone defense and he had success against opponents that did. He accepted the common criticisms of zone defenses — that it can be hard to rebound out of a zone and it ...