Attacking the Triangle-and-2 Defense Basketball Animation

Some teams might try to defend your best two perimeter players by using a "triangle and 2" combination (junk) defense. They place three defenders inside in a triangle formation, playing zone and protecting the paint. The other two defenders play your best two outside players man-to-man. I believe that this is somewhat like attacking man-to-man defense, although man-to-man set plays won't work as well.

The three inside defenders are much like man-to-man helpside defenders. If you have a good man-to-man offense, like the "Read and React" or some other good motion offense, you can probably just run that without any major changes. Or you might consider the offense below. It's very similar to our "Runner" offense, that is used to attack 1-2-2 and 1-3-1 zone defenses.

The defense is in a triangle zone inside (diagram A) and are playing our two best perimeter scorers O2 and O3 man-to-man. We attack this from the baseline. O1 passes to O3 and cuts through to the right corner. O3 passes to O2, and O2 passes to O1 in the corner (diagram B). O1 could shoot the 3-point shot. If he/she is a decent shooter, X4 will have to come out to defend. O4 cross-screens X5 and O5 cuts ball-side for the pass from O1 and a lay-up (diagram C). It's possible that the X1 defender may have dropped down here, but it's still usually a mis-match with our bigger, stronger O4 against X1.



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