defense
June 6, 2018
18 characteristics of a good defensive team
Teams that know how to defense well and pressure opposing offenses have these 18 characteristics in common. 1. They recognize their opponent’s offensive actions/tendencies while they're in the flow of the game. 2. They play defense with their voi...
February 28, 2018
Footwork, conditioning drills for ball-hawking defenders
Time is always of the essence, and too often it seems as if the repetitions of footwork drills in practice lessen as the season progresses. To remedy this, our staff discovered a way to combine two benefits into one task by incorporating defensive f...
January 25, 2018
Defeating the four-corners delay offense
Most high school and college coaches have observed, studied or used the four-corners delay offense. Therefore, it stands to good reason that a defensive coach likely would have to face this offense in late-period situations or during games when their...
November 30, 2017
Considering alternatives to switching on screens
A varsity coach once was explaining why he demanded that all teams in his program switch on all screens. “You know,” he says at one point, “John Wooden and Denny Crum switched on all screens.” Unspoken is the fact that Wooden, a coach of 10...
September 18, 2017
10 concepts to become more defensive-minded
Coaches hear the phrase “defense wins championships” so often that they regard it as a cliché instead of the cornerstone of every successful basketball program. There are many types of defenses that can win — from Rick Pitino’s relentless pr...
August 9, 2017
‘The Freak’ defense slows opposing offenses
We have all tried gimmick defenses to steal possessions or slow down the opposition’s best player. “The Freak” defense is a modified triangle-and-two or box-and-one, depending on how you implement it into your defensive arsenal. The defense wo...
June 1, 2017
17-seconds drill
This is a great drill to develop trapping abilities and defensive footwork within your team. It also works on transition play and encourages passing the ball while under heavy defensive pressure. DIAGRAM 1: Position players as shown with a coach inb...
May 5, 2017
Challenging your team to get more deflections
[caption id="attachment_9390" align="alignright" width="336"] Photo: Thomas Sorenes[/caption] Every coach wonders how they can improve their defense or score more points. Getting more deflections is one way to limit your opponent, leading to easy ba...
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Developing a blue chip program without blue chip players
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