When studying the
true strategies of one of the fastest paced sports we see how humans
put to use zone defense strategies. But before we start our
discussion on the game of basketball with the most agile of the
species, let us take a look at how zone defense works in other
arenas not necessarily similar to sports.
In Iraq the US and Coalition forces have broken up the area into
regions to hunt down the Insurgency and International Terrorist
Groups. In business zone defense is used to market a product or
service to target markets with in zones as well. In fact most
distribution works in commercial enterprises works in this same
fashion also. You must cover the territories better than the
competition.
Perhaps you have been involved in politics as a volunteer or you
have wondered how people get elected? Sure they run lots of ads on
the TV and radio in specific markets, but they also get out the vote
by walking precincts to peoples’ homes. All this is zone defense or
zone offense depending on if your opponent is doing the same thing.
Even the US Post Office or FEMA uses zone strategies to accomplish
their tasks and missions.
Now then back to basketball; if you really want to understand the
game, you need to be thinking on exactly what zone defense is all
about and then watch it unfold at 5-times the speed as any of these
others types of zone strategies and then you will have a better
understanding and appreciation of the sport. Consider all this in
2006.
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