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Choosing A Basketball Defensive Strategy
| Posted on August 5, 2010 at 11:27 AM |
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Okay, before choosing a specific defensive formation, you have to
keep these 4 points in mind:
1) Make sure the offensive team never advances without strong
defensive pressure.
2) Never limit yourself to one single defensive strategy...be more
diverse.
3) Choose whatever defensive style works against the opponent's
offensive style.
4) Fully understand the defensive formation you choose and make
sure that you can clearly teach it to your players.
And, the defense you choose should be:
- Fundamental, at an individual and team level
- Flexible enough to counter many offensive styles
- Simple for your players to learn
- Complicated for the opponent to figure out
One of the advantages of having multiple defenses is that gives
your opponent's difficulty in scouting your team. Good coaches know
the competiton...they scout them...they watch them. If you have
different defensive styles in the course of a game, the opposing
coach will have to prepare for your many styles in their own
practice, and they won't have a clear strategy against you.
All teams should be able to press, especially at the end of
quarters and in the late stages of the game. Pressure and
aggressiveness forces the other team to make mistakes, and it takes
them out of their comfort zone.
War is deception, and a competitive basketball game is very similar
to a war. You want to trick the opposing coach, surprise them and
confuse them. By switching to defensive variations in the second
half that weren't used in the 1st half, you'll throw off the
opposing team.
Being able to move quickly from offense to defense is a quality
trait of all winning teams. The game of basketball is played at a
rapid pace. A simple rebound and outlet can start a quick
fast-break, and your players need to be very alert and responsive.
When on offense, your team should have the following roles:
- 3 offensive rebounders to crash the boards and create 2nd shot opportunities
- 1 "mid-fielder" who decides to either rebound or step-back for defense
- 1 defensive safety who never crashes for offensive rebounds
The "mid-fielder" and the defensive safety are ready to quickly
move from offense to defense, and stop the opponent's from scoring
easy baskets. The other players should also be prepared to move
from offense to defense at a rather quick pace.
------ Preparing for Defense ------
When you start preparing your team for defense, its important to
stress the fundamentals and develop general guidelines that all
defenses should follow, which are:
- Practice double-teaming opponents, from both man-to-man, zone, &
press formations
- Teach proper off-the-ball defense, mainly preventing backdoor
plays and cuts
- Teach your players not to allow easy passing. Stay in the passing
lanes, keep hands out, try to intercept passes.
- Emphasive attention to detail from each and every player.
- Correct mistakes immediately, and insist on perfect execution.
- Spread defensive drills out throughout the practice and maintain
variety
- Reward good defensive play
----- Choosing the Right Defensive Formation -----
In general, your team will fall into one of the following groups,
and the best type of defense to choose is as follows:
1) Five Taller than Average Players - For a man-to-man defense, it
should be generally loose, defending the basket and the paint and
not pressuring too much. For a zone, it should be passive as well.
If you need to pressure, a half-court press will work better than a
full-court press. You want your opponent to take more outside shots
while shutting down their interior opportunities.
2) Four Taller Players & One Small, Quick Player - Similar to the
above lineup, this group should focus more on a loose and passive
man-to-man and zone defense. A 1-2-2 zone can work well, in which
the smaller player is given freedom to move freely, apply pressure,
and intercept passes. The main goal with this lineup is to protect
the paint. In a press situation, stick with a half-court press.
3) Three Tall Players & 2 Small Players - A fairly balanced lineup,
in which a typical man-to-man defense works best. For a zone, the
2-3 will work very well, and for pressing, a 2-2-1 full court press
is suitable.
4) Two Tall Players & 3 Smaller Players - You can use a variety of
man-to-man defenses, infact, a man-to-man defense is best with this
lineup. A 3-2 zone can be employed or a 1-2-2 zone. For pressure,
this team can use full, half, or a 3/4 press. Very versatile lineup.
5) One Tall Player & 4 Smaller Players - Leave the tall player near
the basket at all times, while the 4 small players play a switching
man-to-man defense, in which the players switch off screens, and
they switch on any lateral movements of the offensive player from
one side of the court to the other.
6) Five Smaller Players - Pressure, press, pressure! Playing loose
is not an option. A tight man-to-man half court defense works best.
For zones, the only real options are a zone press and a match-up
zone. All 5 players must crash the defensive boards hard. For
pressing, an aggressive full-court press should be utilized with
active hands.
>> Now, the only thing left for you to do is pick 2 or 3 specific
defensive formations based on the strengths and weaknesses of your
team...and then choose a nice set of plays and drills to run in
practice...
The Grinnell Basketball Offensive System
| Posted on May 28, 2010 at 4:43 PM |
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The Grinnell basketball system is named after Grinnell College in Iowa. Coach Dave Arsenault developed the system to help the team get a winning season for the first time in over two decades. Coach the Grinnell system by emphasizing speed and shooting.
Step 1
Forget traditional basketball. Coach the Grinnell system by choosing players who are very fast, have a decent shot and think quickly to make the best of transitions.
Step 2
Coach two or three press combinations for defense. One of the key components of the Grinnell system is to force turnovers of the basketball (aim for 32 turnovers per game). Players should transition to the press quickly and play it as tightly as possible.
Step 3
Coach shooting from all angles and all spots on the floor. The object of the Grinnell system is to take at least 100 shots per game, with over half of these being three-pointers.
Step 4
Run and rotate players on quick shifts. The success of Grinnell basketball depends on speed of the kind that wears out and dazzles the opponent. Rotate five fresh players every one-and-a-half to two minutes.
Step 5
Work on offensive rebounds. Because the system emphasizes so much shooting, players need to follow their shots and others on the team need to re-bound.
Step 6
De-emphasize traditional defense. This means the other team scores a lot, but your team scores more. You want enough players out of the key, even on defense, to be in place for the long shot when your team gets the ball.
See the Grinnell basketball system in action with this short video...
Have you heard of Coach Dave Arsenault and the
Grinnell college pioneers?
You might have seen him featured in Sports Illustrated,
or ESPN The Magazine... or on ABC Sports?
Over the past 17 years, they've won 13 NCAA scoring
titles and 4 MWC conference championships.
What's their secret?
A zany, frenetic style of play known simply as
"The System."
How does it work?
=> For starters, you try to get up 100 shots per game...
with at least HALF of those as three-pointers.
If you're open... jack it up... ideally within the first
12 seconds of the shot clock.
=> You also train your kids to crash the boards like a
pack of crazed bloodhounds.
And, on defense, run an intense full-court trapping
press from tip-off to buzzer.
=> You'll need to keep your players' legs fresh. So
you can use "hockey-style" 5-man line substitutions.
Sounds strange, I know... but it works like crazy!
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Basketball Defense; Individual Effort
| Posted on May 28, 2010 at 3:59 PM |
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It all starts with the individual. The 1st step is to teach each
player these defensive values:
1) Desire & Pride: Skills and fundamentals don't mean anything
unless the player has a lot of desire to shut down the offensive
player, and a lot of pride in being able get stops. A good
defensive players works extra hard, hustles, and makes it a
personal goal to stop his man...even when tired. Tell your players
that there is no greater satisfaction than tiring, frustrating, and
shutting down a talented offensive player.
2) Alertness & Agressiveness: Remaining sharp is the key to
defense. You have to aware of every little thing so you can react
quickly. Moreover, a player has to be able to react immediately
from offense to defense so they can eliminate easy scoring
opportunities. May players think that defense is passive, but this
is not true. The more active & aggressive a player is, the better
defense will be played. Aggressiveness forces the offense to become
passive.
3) Anticipation & Adaptability: Anticipating an offensive play or
an offensive move is very valuable. It allows the defender to
adjust beforehand, which causes nightmares for the offense...passes
can be intercepted, double-teams can be made quicker, easy scoring
opportunities can be prevented. Adaptability is the ability to
change. If the offensive player adjusts his/her game, the defender
should adjust as well. Be ready to change as its demanded.
4) Speed & Quickness: Speed allows a defender to get from one side
of the court to the other side faster than the offense, and it
enables a player to get into proper defensive positioning quicker.
Speed & quickness also allows a player to recover quickly from
mistakes, and prevent fast-break baskets. Hand quickness is equally
important, as it allows for deflections, steals, and blocks. Since
the majority of defense is played within 18 feet of the basket,
foot quickness is probably more important than breakaway speed.
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What Does Basketball and Soccer Have in Common?
| Posted on April 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM |
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There are several tips for creating a killer basketball defensive strategy using soccer defensive principals. If you think about it Soccer and Basketball have a lot in common.
The formation of soccer players on the soccer field can be useful in assigning defensive positions on the basketball court.
The roll of a goalie in soccer is to protect the goal at all cost, like wise in order to be succesfull defensivly you have to protect the basket. Consider the following:
Defensive and offensive systems and styles must be complimentary. Defense begins with offensive shot selection and taking care of the basketball.
Two of the toughest things to guard are bad shots that no one is ready to defend, or turnovers that lead to fast break opportunities with numbers advantages to the offense.
The following is one system that can be used to organize, teach, and evaluate a system and then every defensive possession.
The halfback is the player who retreats to the top of the key in the offensive rebounding positions when the ball is shot and the fullback is the player who retreats to the jump circle when the ball is shot.
For each possession Halfback slows the ball in conversion, fullback becomes goalie all others--sprint inside our defensive three point arc, communicate, and match up.
Establish and maintain gappers, goalie, and post.
Pressure the ball with no penetration, no fouling.
Keep the ball out of the paint and post. If there is penetration---we trap the ball with the goal of having it passed out to the perimeter. We sprint out of our traps!
Contest every shot.
Dive on every loose ball or block out on missed shots, pursue the ball and chin the rebound.
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How to Design a Defensive Game Plan?
| Posted on April 9, 2010 at 6:36 PM |
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These are some questions that you can use to develop a defensive system and to tweak the system so that it fits your personnel.
Philosophy:
- What are the strengths of our players and how can we best utilize those strengths while hiding their weaknesses?
- What is the optimal number of possessions per game for this group?
- Can we defend for that number of possessions at that pace?
- How is our ability compared to the best teams in our region of the state tournament?
- What is our depth like?
- How does our depth affect our style and pace of play?
- What will our substitution pattern be?
Conversion Defense:
- How many players are we going to send to the offensive glass?
- Do we need to add any rules that will improve our conversion?
- Do we like the drills we have to teach conversion defense?
Man Defense:
- What hurt us most last year defensively?
- How do we defend dribble penetration better?
- What screening actions created problems for us?
- Where do we want to pick up the dribbler?
- How do we want to defend the post?
- How do we want to defend ball screens?
- Zone Defense How much zone do we want to play?
- Would it help us to have an even front and odd front zone so we can attack them both offensively during practice?
- Do we want to be able to trap out of our zone defenses?
- How do we best teach rebounding out of our zone?
1/2 Court Trap:
- How much do we want to play it?
- How big are our trappers?
- How do we want to rotate out of the trap?
- Do we want to stay in the trap or go "one and done"?
- When do we want to look to play it - dead balls, FT's, end of half... Do we have a better trapping line-up than others?
Presses:
- How much do we want to use the press?
- When do we want to press?
- How aggressive do we want to be with our press?
- Do we have a better pressing line-up than others?
- Who are our best trappers?
- Do we deny the point guard back once they pass out of the trap?
Inbound Defense:
- Do we want to play strictly man?
- Do we want to trap the inbound pass?
- How do we want our inbound defender to play UOOB and SOOB?
- Special Situations Who would be our best denial defender?
- Does any team on our schedule potentially warrant a special defensive tactic?
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36 Defensive Principals
| Posted on March 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM |
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- When you try to stop everything, you stop nothing.
- The number one goal of our defense is to allow a low defensive field goal percentage.
- Control the dribbler. Determined to keep him out of lane.
- Keep the ball out of the lane by gapping (that keeps us from having to rotate and miss block outs).
- Gapping is more important than gambling for steals.
- Be a high energy defensive team every night and outlast the opponent every possession
- Make them shoot contested shots 18’ and out, then block out, pursue the ball, and chin the rebound
- Defense involves continually performing one responsibility after another, until we have the ball.
- Players who do not play defense as hard as possible do not play.
- Any player with desire and determination can learn to be an adequate defensive player.
- Playing hard will make up for a lot of defense mistakes.
- We use both our defense and our offense to control the tempo of the game and the number of possessions.
- Individual concentration, awareness, anticipation, recovery, and communication are vital.
- Defense is successful when each player concentrates each possession on recognizing, anticipating, and executing.
- A defensive attitude is essential. The players need to feel that they aredifficult to score against and must take pride in the defensive aspectof the game.
- Great defensive teams cover up mistakes.
- You recover as soon the ball is picked up. Help as far outside the lane as possible. Same on screens.
- Teams don't get beat the help they get beat on better recovery—so we must practice and stress recovery.
- Ball is more important—talk the switch—no penetration.
- STANCE knees bent—feet wide) Tail down, Weight on balls of feet. Heels slightly up.
- POSITION Do not go for a steal and take yourself out of a play. That is false hustle and it hurts our team.
- VISION AND AWARENESS (see the ball and man—sink to see). Be ready to help on the ball.
- Trace the ball with other hand. Hands off. Don’t foul the game away or put yourself on the bench with foul trouble.
- Know the man’s strengths and play the appropriate gap. Our scouting report will make what that exactly is clear to the players.
- FORCE OUTSIDE. When the man with the ball spins, or turns his back we trap him.
- When the dribble is picked up, we apply pressure—“Up” is our call soeveryone knows the ball is up. Make the ball uncomfortable.
- Forward pivots, hands above shoulders on block outs.
- Youcan only do two of the three from: deny, help, recover. We choose tonot deny and place our defenders in the help gap to begin with.
- Foul only for profit. Switch for profit.
- Great defensive teams take charges and don’t reach or swing.
- Takethe charge in front of the basket, in the lane, and on the baseline. Itis impossible to get a charge call in the middle of the floor.
- Help across and down—never from the basket out.
- Guard two places at once by using defensive fakes.
- Give quick help with early recovery. Helper sees own man.
- When we recover, we recover to the ball or to a gap, not to a man (unless he has the ball or is in the post)
- Don’t deny past the level of the ball.
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Basketball Defensive Slide Drill
| Posted on February 13, 2010 at 6:23 PM |
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THE DEFENSIVE "SLIDE" DRILL
- Here's a great drill to become a better defender. Start underneath the
basket, and run to the free throw line under control. As you
approach the free throw line, slow down, and get under control and
ready to slide (this is "closing out" on the offensive player).
Once you're at the free-throw line, slide to the right side of the
court by quickly moving side-to-side. You're NOT moving forward, you're
moving sideways. The goal is to move your feet as quickly as possible
without overlapping one foot over the other. Once you finish
sliding to the right-side of the court, slide back all the way to
the left side of the court, and repeat this drill until you get
tired.
You'll be surprised at how much better just this one drill will make
you at defense, because it teaches you to run and close-out a defender
under control, slide your feet, and improve your overall conditioning.
Remember to stay low, and you'll really work your thighs and calves.
There are so MANY more important defensive tips and drills
that you need to know to become a super-tough defender....
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Basketball Defensive Tips and Strategies
| Posted on February 13, 2010 at 6:19 PM |
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It doesn't matter how good your offense is, if you're not
defensively sound, you WILL be the "bench warmer" for
your team.
Believe it or not, coaches do care about defense more than offense.
Coaches know that the key to winning is slowing down and stopping
the other teams' star players.
Now, you don't need to constantly steal the ball from them, or
block all their shots to be an effective defensive player.
Simply being able to stay infront of him/her and force them into
tough, low percentage shots does the trick.
The key here is to make your man work extremely hard to get off a
shot. Your mind set should be to wear him out and make him tired.
Even if he/she starts out hitting those tough shots, it doesn't
matter. As the game progresses, the amount of work, and energy they had to
use will show its effects.
Now, realize that all this is only possible if you're able to stay
infront of your man.
Let's take a look at some of the things you can do to stay in front
of your man...
TIP: Keep your eyes on the defender's abs.
=> No matter what fake the offensive player performs, they can only
go where their abs take them.
TIP: Play defense with your feet not your hands.
=> Don't be lazy, you need to move your feet. Reaching aimlessly
with your hands will only lead to pointless fouls.
TIP: Go for the steal on the up-bounce.
=> This is when the ball is moving the slowest, and when your
player has the least control.
TIP: Get low.
=> When in your defensive stance make sure to get low and wide,
while staying on the balls of your feet. This will maximize your
ability to stay in front of your defender and not let him blow past
you.
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How To Be A Dominating Basektball Defense Player
| Posted on December 31, 2009 at 1:18 PM |
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It doesn't matter how good your offense is, if you're not
defensively sound, you WILL be the "bench warmer" for
your team.
Believe it or not, coaches do care about defense more than offense.
Coaches know that the key to winning is slowing down and stopping
the other teams' star players.
Now, you don't need to constantly steal the ball from them, or
block all their shots to be an effective defensive player.
Simply being able to stay infront of him/her and force them into
tough, low percentage shots does the trick.
The key here is to make your man work extremely hard to get off a
shot. Your mind set should be to wear him out and make him tired.
Even if he/she starts out hitting those tough shots, it doesn't
matter. As the game progresses, the amount of work, and energy they had to
use will show its effects.
Now, realize that all this is only possible if you're able to stay
infront of your man.
Let's take a look at some of the things you can do to stay in front
of your man...
TIP: Keep your eyes on the defender's abs.
=> No matter what fake the offensive player performs, they can only
go where their abs take them.
TIP: Play defense with your feet not your hands.
=> Don't be lazy, you need to move your feet. Reaching aimlessly
with your hands will only lead to pointless fouls.
TIP: Go for the steal on the up-bounce.
=> This is when the ball is moving the slowest, and when your
player has the least control.
TIP: Get low.
=> When in your defensive stance make sure to get low and wide,
while staying on the balls of your feet. This will maximize your
ability to stay in front of your defender and not let him blow past
you.
THE DEFENSIVE "SLIDE" DRILL
- Here's a great drill to become a better defender. Start underneath the
basket, and run to the free throw line under control. As you
approach the free throw line, slow down, and get under control and
ready to slide (this is "closing out" on the offensive player).
Once you're at the free-throw line, slide to the right side of the
court by quickly moving side-to-side. You're NOT moving forward, you're
moving sideways. The goal is to move your feet as quickly as possible
without overlapping one foot over the other. Once you finish
sliding to the right-side of the court, slide back all the way to
the left side of the court, and repeat this drill until you get
tired.
You'll be surprised at how much better just this one drill will make
you at defense, because it teaches you to run and close-out a defender
under control, slide your feet, and improve your overall conditioning.
Remember to stay low, and you'll really work your thighs and calves.
Basketball Man on Man 2-3 Zone Defense
| Posted on December 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM |
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In my oppinion all basketball defensive plays should incorporate some man to man / zone principals. Below you will find a great basketball defensive play that uses the structure of the 2-3 zone and incorporates the versitility of the man to man basketball defense. Check it out...
Man-to-Man 2-3 ZONE
1 This is a "Man-to-Man" 2-3 zone. Here we have our guards ready to defend the three point line, and the back row of the zone should line up with the first marker above the block. This forces the offense to start further than they want.
Can be effective against an aggressive penetrating team. Players will use our man to man principles when playing zone.
2 As the offense comes down the court the zone has to match-up. The arrows indicate the appropriate matchups for this alignment.
Communication is key when playing zone. The defense must be talking to each other.
3 If 1 passes the ball to 2 the defense would stay with their matchups, but if 1 passes to 3 then BUMPING begins.
x1 would bump x4 down. x4 does not leave until x1 tells him to.
BUMPING will occur only when a back line defender is out guarding a perimeter player.
4 In this situation the offense has a high post (5). x5 will match-up with 5.
x1 and x2 will help x5 by trying to get a hand in any passing lane to 5.
x5 will keep 5 as far away from the basket as possible on any shots taken by the offense.
5 If the offense overloads a side by sending a cutter through, it is verycrucial that the defenders communicate. x2 must yell "cutter" and hemust bump or slow down the cutter. x3 and x5 will also look to slowdown the cutter.
x1 bumps x4 down, and x2 rotates up. x4 will match up with 2 in the corner.
6 If they overload to the opposite side. x2 does not bump. x4 yells "cutter"and slows down 3's progress. x3 will match-up with 3 on the perimeter,x5 will slide over and x4 takes the opposite low post (5).
For diagrams to go with this defensive play click http://www.basketball-drills-and-plays.com/Defensive_Basketball_Plays_1.html
Basketball Defensive Tips For Players
| Posted on December 3, 2009 at 1:40 PM |
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OFF THE BALL
BALL/MAN LINE
When you areguarding a player without the ball in man to man defense, it isimportant to be aware of the "ball/man line". The ball/man line is animaginary line between your man, and the man with the ball. You shouldbe on the basket side of the ball man line and away from your manenough to help your teammates. This position helps form what is calledthe "defensive triangle."
COVER DOWN DEFENSE
Whenever theball penetrates on a pass or a dribble, all players should cover downto the level of the ball and force it back out. When the ball isdribbled toward the baseline, the nearest help side defender mustquickly stop the ball before it reaches the lane. If the ball is passedto the post, we keep him from dribbling by quickly covering down. Whenwe cover down to the baseline from on top. When the ball is passed backout, all players recover to their man. USE THE CLOSEST MAN TO THE BALLRULE ON RECOVERY.
DEFENSIVE TRIANGLE
On Defensealways be able to see your man and the ball (this is when your mandoesn´t have the ball). When your man is ONE pass away, you can denythe player from getting the ball. You must be in a defensive triangleposition with you, the ball and your man. Flatten out the triangle,with you at the center point of the triangle. Try to get a hand in thepassing lane (straight line between the ball and your man). Positionyour head so that you can see both with your peripheral vision. Thenslide up and back with your man, keeping that triangle position.
JUMP TO THE BALL
Any timethe ball is passed YOU MUST JUMP TO THE BALL to play good defense. Makegradual, quick, immediate adjustments in your stance. You must be inposition before the ball is caught. Jumping to the ball allows you tobe in proper position to front cutters, avoid screens (be a movingtarget), and help teammates. Any time the ball is dribbled you mustmake the proper ball side or help side adjustments in positioning.
QUICK HELP AND EARLY RECOVERY
There is nosuch thing as helping too quickly. When your teammate steers the ballinto the next gap, be ready to provide quick help with your rear to theball. When you help, you must recover on line to your man as the ballis picked up.In all screening situations you must talk, provide quickhelp and then recover early.
ON THE BALL DEFENSE
CLOSE DOWN
This is astrategy to use when you are coming to defend a player from a distanceaway, such as sprinting out to your man on a skip pass after helpdefense . What you do is sprint half way to your player and then in alow defensive position, use shuffle steps to assume good defensiveposition.
CONTEST ALL SHOTS
Never allow anopponent to shoot the ball uncontested. The problem, however, withplayers attempting to block shots is the tendency to commit fouls.Therefore, the proper way to contest a shot is to stay on your feetfacing the shooter until the shooter leaves his or her feet, thenattempt to get your hand on top of the basketball. At the very least,get a hand up so it limits his vision of the basket or he has to shootover you. While you may not block the shot, you will put the shooterunder a maximum amount of pressure.
DEFENSIVE SLIDE
The properway to move when guarding the dribbler is to step and push off. This isaccomplished by stepping sideways with the lead foot (the foot closestto the direction in which you wish to go), then pushing off with yourtrail foot to catch up. Always keep your feet in contact with thefloor. Stay low and keep your feet wide. Make quick slides.
POST DEFENSE
DEFENSIVE POST POSITION
If adefender is posting you up (having his back to the basket looking forthe ball) try to get in front and deny him the ball. If you can´t, geta good wide base and don´t let him back you in any deeper. Any contactwith his elbows on your chest should be a foul on him.
HIGH POST DEFENSE
The basicrule for guarding the high post(post player at the free throw line) isto deny the pass in from the side. This is a position where thedefensive player is at the ball side of the post player, with theforward arm denying the pass into the post. Use the back of your otherhand to maintain contact with your man. When the ball moves to theother side, go on the basket side of your man and assume the sidedenial position on the other side.
LOW POST DEFENSE-BALL ABOVE THE FREE THROW LINE
If the ballis above the free throw line extended (imaginary line extending fromthe free throw line to the sideline), then you should deny on the highside. You should be chest to chest with the post player with your armclosest to the ball in the passing lane.
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9 Basketball Defensive Fundementals
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Posts: 8 1. IF A DRIBBLER IS GOING TO YOUR RIGHT, THERIGHT FOOT SHOULD BETHE BACK FOOT IN YOUR STANCE. DRIBBLER GOING TOYOUR LEFT, YOUR LEFTFOOT IS BACK.
2. IN ON-THE-BALL-DEFENSIVESTANCE, YOUR ARMS ARE EXTENDED TOREPRESENT THE LETTER L. THE FRONT HANDCONTINUOUSLY MEASURES THECORRECT DISTANCE FROM THE DRIBBLER, AND ISTOUCH-TOUCH- TOUCH, WHILEBEING READY TO STOP THE CROSSOVER DRIBBLE. THEBACK HAND STAYS OUTSIDETHE BALL AND COMES UP AT THE BALL TO TRY TOINTIMIDATE OR HIT THE BALLAWAY. WE WANT YOUR WING SPAN AND STANCE TOTAKE UP AS MUCH OF THEFLOOR AS POSSIBLE.
3. WHEN SLIDING, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BRING YOUR FEET TOGETHER ORTO BEOFF BALANCE. NEVER PLANT THE FEET AND REACH FOR THE BALL! NEVERREACHACROSS THE DRIBBLER'S BODY WITH THE FRONT HAND!
4. IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN GOOD BALANCE AND TO KEEP YOUR BODY UNDER CONTROL AT ALL TIMES.
5. IN DEFENDING THE DRIBBLER, ON-THE-BALL POSITION IS CRITICAL.ALWAYSMAINTAIN THE FRONT FOOT TO THE DRIBBLER'S CLOSEST FOOT, AND HAVEYOURNOSE “ON THE BALL”. YOUR BACK ARM AND LEG WILL BE AHEAD OF THEBALL,MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THE DRIBBLER TO TURN THE CORNER ON YOU. (Thedribbler is contained within this “defensive embrace”.)
6. THE POSITION RULE WHEN DEFENDING THE DRIBBLER IS: BALL-ME-BASKET.
7. OFF THE BALL, A DEFENSIVE POSITION IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEBALL, THEBASKET AND YOUR OFFENSIVE MAN SHOULD RESEMBLE A TRIANGLE.ALWAYS BE IN APOSITION WHERE YOU CAN SEE YOUR MAN AND SEE THE BALLWITHOUT HAVING TOTURN YOUR HEAD. YOU DO THIS BY ADJUSTING YOUR FEET.
8. THE RULE IN #7 IS: BALL-ME-MAN/MAN-ME-BASKET.
9. WHEN WE ARE NOT PLAYING ON THE BALL, WE ARE EITHER IN OVERPLAY ONTHEBALLSIDE, OR, IF TWO OR MORE PASSES AWAY, IN HELP DEFENSE.
