Strategies that will have your basketball team playing hard-nosed, shutdown man-to-man defense!
By Tony Alfonso
Utilize the 8 team defense techniques and concepts below to help your team work together as a cohesive defensive unit. Defense does win and getting 5 defenders to play together can make your team dominant on the defensive end of the basketball court. Follow these concepts, but also emphasize them to your players. Get Better...
By Tony Alfonso
I came across an old handout with the following list of Individual Defensive Rules by the late UTEP coach, Don Haskins. Im not old enough to recall the old Texas Western days (see the movie, Glory Road) but I do remember watching a lot of UTEP games in the 80s. Coach Haskins teams always...
By Tony Alfonso
The following defensive tips and strategies will help you become a better individual defender. Better individual defenders = better team defense. Get after it! Talk. Dont be shy. A good defender communicates with teammates on the court. Move your feet. Its hard to be a good defender if you dont move your feet. Stay between...
By Tony Alfonso
Many offenses, even if they do not specifically run the Flex offense, they will often utilize the baseline flex cut. This article will help you learn how to defend the flex cut. When defending the baseline flex cut, it is preferrable to body up and force the cutter low and possibly out of bounds to...
By Tony Alfonso
A good defensive player wants to make his opponent work hard on offense. He also wants the offensive player to take bad or heavily challenged shots. If you cant stop the opponent from scoring, its hard to win. Follow these 12 tips to become a dominant defensive player on the basketball court: Defensive Stance: Play...
By Tony Alfonso
You may not be a pressing team, but it is good to have the ability to press at different points in a game. You may simply need to press towards the end of a game in order to come back from a deficit. You may also like to mix it up once in awhile to...
By Tony Alfonso
The Scramble defense is, in essence, a rotating man-to-man defense that will allow many opportunities for steals and will also put intense pressure on your opponents shot attempts. The Scramble is a man-to-man defense but after the first scramble, any defender may be guarding any offensive player. The purpose of the Scramble Defense is: to...
By Tony Alfonso
The following techniques and strategies can be taught and employed regardless of what style of man-to-man defense you play. Whether you play a packline, full denial, or sagging man-to-man defense, these basic fundamentals should be ingrained in your players. As you (and they) begin to understand better how to play effective man-to-man defense, you can...
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