Improve your side when they are on the retreat with this section of defensive basketball drills.
Defenders trap on every pass as the offense attempts to find the open player before the drill spreads into a 4-on-4 full-court game with required trapping. MORE
Move the point guard in the opposite direction of the offense to disrupt the opposition’s timing and cohesion while still covering rolling screener. WHY USE IT Once again, the goal is to keep the offense from running what it wants, as well as forcing the point guard to make a non-attacking pass. SET UP This... MORE
A skill to work on every day in practice, the defensive slide isn’t as easy as it looks, especially when facing a gifted ball handler. MORE
After completing a full-court transition layup, those 2 players now must sprint back in the opposite direction to close out on shooters in the front court. MORE
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Help defense is the cornerstone of all great defensive teams so teach players the proper way to help and the energy needed to play defense properly MORE
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Defensive players must learn how to close out on the ball, stop a cutter and race out to guard a new ball handler on a skip pass. MORE
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Defenders must learn to react and recover (scramble) when passes are flying around the perimeter — use this disadvantage drill to sharpen those skills. MORE
From Derek Brown of CoachTube The ‘Nearest Man’ Drill teaches players how to control the glass even when there isn’t an opposing player in their immediate vicinity Why use it During a game, players may be caught in the paint without an offensive player near them to box out. You still need those defensive rebounders to have... MORE
From Chad Warner, the head men’s coach at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Help defense is the cornerstone of all great defensive teams so teach players the proper way to help and the energy needed to play defense properly. Why use it If your help defense is a step slow, then your entire defensive... MORE
From Chad Warner, head coach at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida Defensive players must learn how to close out on the ball, stop a cutter and race out to guard a new ball handler on a skip pass – require these skills for playing time. Why use it Your defensive players must do more than... MORE
