@Clare Murphy I think my concern is more with the other 4 on the court. The guy will catch recognizing he has a closeout lets say, but the other 4 won't? They will flash to the post or fill or cut, not allowing him to attack his closeout. Which is my understanding of why you said address space first. How do I do it? I don't have film for our games, so we can't break it down that way.

@Jared Sanford How do you coach your youth coaches to run conceptual offense. Right now I am stuck with dads of players coaching our youth program but they are not familiar with anything regarding todays game.

Look at a clock. If your toes are pointing at the rim they are pointing at 12 turn them slightly to the left to 10:30 for a right hand shooter

Here is my take. I don't look at basketball through the lens of man or zone. I look at through the lens of what are they trying to make us do or take away. Is the 2-1-2 zone a pressure zone do they try to make you uncomfortable taking away rhythm? if that is the case they give up a lot of room. Room to punch or room to quick flash. Is the zone back taking away range at the rim keeping you on the perimeter. If that is the case it gives up rhythm. Use quick and easy ball reversals forcing the zone to quickly adjust side to side until they get themselves out of rotation and you get a cutter or driver or shooter that is wide open. Finally is the 2-1-2 zone trying to keep you in a certain location maybe outer 1/3rds taking away your room to operate. If that is the case you need hard seals, screens, and aggressive flashes so that when the ball does touch where they don't want it to go they over commit and you get the dominoes to fall. That is what I teach my guys to look for and tells us how we want to align and what series of actions we are in.