Customer Reviews

Own the Zone: Executing and Attacking Zone Defenses

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It will be years before I fully understand all the information in this book. It will be months before I will be choosing and coaching my eighth-grade team, but I am already drawing up practice plans with Own the Zone concepts in mind. I just watched Russia hold the USA to 17 points in the second quarter of their exhibition game in China, and they were using the exact zone strategies outlined in this book. The history lesson at the beginning of the book gets tedious and seems to be fluff and filler before the meat, the diagrams, the drills, but overall I would highly recommend this book to any coach looking to bolster their arsenal of defensive weapons.

Amazon's review system does not allow for half-stars and I do think this book deserves more than four stars, just not quite five. I teach history, love sports history but found the historical part of the book a little uninteresting.

I have a copy of Don Casey's very first book, at least I think it was his first book, on zone defense. While that little manual I got 25 years ago was helpful and had lots of useful interesting information on zone defense, the current book by Casey is vastly better. By showing how zone defenses really work, this book helped me to think about how to attack zones more effectively on offense.

This book not only provides a tremendous amount about zone defenses, etc., it will get you as a coach thinking about how to use a zone and how to fit the zone to your personnel or vice versa. I always find books that make me think about things in a different light more helpful than the ones that just spell it out for me and don't get my mind working to use the information provided to solve my particular problem.

I strongly recommend this book for any coach, youth coach, middle school, high school, beginner or veteran.

Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball

I have been coaching for 12 years and this book had some great insight into zone defenses and zone offenses. Simple reading that got your mind going during the offseason.

This book was titled wrong, i was looking for a book about attacking various zones, this had one small section devoted to that. this is more a book about installing various zone defenses instead of attacking them.

This book is a must own if your thinking about using the zone for your team. Not only does it break down the history of the zone, it gives great examples on how to implement them.