Youth "No zone rule" looking for examples

[Coltdoggs]

Interesting to see what other youth leagues are doing...

We modified our backcourt guarding rule two years ago for 5th/6th. (3rd/4th still use only the last 2:00 of 3rd and 4th Q for full court press.)

No press after made baskets or dead balls and no direct pressure on the ball handler (we use the 6' closely guarded idea in BC for this). They can however guard players without the ball and steal passes or get loose balls.

It used to be no backcourt D at all until the 2:00 mark of Q3 and Q4...Previous, if a kid made a pass to another running down court and it hit him in the back and was just bouncing free in the BC, the defense could not touch it...in short, they had to get back past halfcourt.

They can guard in BC anytime now with those mods in the first half of the season.

Second half of the season, they must follow those rules for Q1 and Q2. Then in Q3/Q4 they can FCP anytime as long as no more than 10 point lead.

My thought was that it was natural for a kid to play D after a rebound or stolen pass and too many were getting called for BC-D...we as a Board felt it encouraged good passing and ball handling and it has really helped with the flow of games too.