Lakers zone defense. Miami boston toronto the los angeles lakers utah and dallas are. The los angeles lakers and miami heat havent played each other in 9 12 months. Instead of each player guarding a corresponding player on the other team each defensive player is given an area to cover.
Zone defenses and zone principles are commonly used in basketball american football association football ice hockey lacrosse australian rules football netball and ultim. Nba teams are desperate to stop high powered offenses and the increase in zone defense has been noticeable in the playoffs. During the regular season the lakers played zone on two percent of their defensive possessions according to synergy sports technology good for 12th in the league the heat led the nba by far.
According to synergy play type tracking. My 3 favorite details from the first 3 games of the nba finals. A couple of years ago a zone defense unless it was being played by the dallas mavericks looked completely bizarre in an nba game.
Today its rather common. James harden and rockets head coach mike dantoni were asked about the zone defense implemented by frank vogel and company and they did not sound too impressed. So there are many.
Zone defense is a type of defense used in team sports which is the alternative to man to man defense. Were so good that teams have to thrown in traps and zones. Lebron carves up the zone and more.
The los angeles lakers entered the fourth quarter of game 3 of the western conference finals trailing the denver nuggets by 18 points when lakers coach frank vogel called for a zone defense a. I detail my three favorite lakers skills one movement mechanics one physical and one.