
If you'd like to dig deeper and get more information about developing an effective 2-3 zone defense, we highly recommend Al Marshall's Zone Defense. What Is The Right Age To Focus On Wins and Losses and Start Playing Zone? Van Gundy - Outlawing Youth Zone Defensesįor The Frustrated Coaches That Turn to Zone Defense What defense should you teach youth players (zone, man, press)? You might win more games by playing zone, but from a development standpoint do the right thing and play man to man defense with your youth team. Playing in a zone defense will LIMIT your players' development. There are numerous reasons to teach players man to man defense first, but one of the biggest reasons to play man is so your players develop more foot speed and coordination. Where in a man to man, you (in theory) always know who is supposed to be guarding the ball.Įveryone here at Breakthrough Basketball believes that youth players should NOT play zone defense. There is always some interpretation up to the players.


This is an alternative to man to man defense where players are responsible for guarding a specific player on the opposing team. In a zone defense players are responsible for guarding an area (zone) of the court. Climate change and related sea-level rise pose significant threats to lowland coasts.Home > Coaching > Basketball Defensive Strategy > Zone Defense Concepts and Tips However, the role of key controlling factors responsible for the frequency and landward extent of extreme storm surges is not yet fully understood. Here, we present a high-resolution sedimentary record of extreme storm surge flooding from the non-tidal southern Baltic Sea, spanning two periods: 3.6–2.9 ka BP and 0.7 ka BP until present. Sediments from coastal wetland, including sandy event layers, were analyzed by sedimentological (grain size, loss-on-ignition, micromorphology), geochronological ( 14C), geochemical (XRF), mineralogical (heavy minerals) and micropaleontological (diatoms) methods. The results show that both periods were characterized by high-frequency of storm surge flooding, in order of 1.3–4.2 events per century.

These periods correlate with phases of enhanced storminess in northwest Europe and took place during both rising and fluctuating sea levels. The study shows that the frequency and landward extent of coastal inundation, largely depended on the development of natural barriers (e.g. Thus, in the context of the future coastal storm-surge hazard, the protection of existing coastal barriers and their morphology is essential. The stability of the global coastline, in particular of lowland coasts is threatened by climate change and rising sea level along with regionally enhanced frequency and intensity of storms 1, 2, 3, 4. Consequently, lowland coasts face a period of instability and more frequent storm flooding.
