Basketball Formations

You’ve found the heart of hoopsong.com, our collection of accessible articles on both offensive and defensive basketball formations.

When you’re really trying to understand basketball at a higher level, the endless play diagrams and techno-babble can make you wanna give up before you even start.

So this is where we’ve endeavored to cover every basketball formation and philosophy known to man, in clear and simple language, so that you can separate from the matrix and learn to see the game behind the game without bleeding out your ears like Joe Pantoliano.

If you want to focus on a specific class of strategy, jump into one of the following categories. Otherwise, keep scrolling and jump into the wild world of hoops strategy.

  1. Defensive Basketball Formations
    1. Zone Defense Formations
    2. Press Defense Formations
    3. Junk Formations
  2. Offensive Basketball Formations
    1. Motion Offense Formations

The Box and 1 Defense

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Box and 1 Defense

Exploring the Box and 1 Basketball defense. We’ll talk about the most famous appearance of the box and 1. We’ll also cover everything you need to know in order to identify, implement and counter this strategy.